WEBVTT - Politicized Witch Hunt: Day 567

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<v Speaker 1>You are entering the freedom HUDG. The Mueller probe is

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<v Speaker 1>poised to give us a look at what they finally got.

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<v Speaker 1>Do we get to see the Special Counsel's cards in

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<v Speaker 1>the days ahead, and what will it tell us about

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<v Speaker 1>the possibility of impeachment? Also in France, the carbon tax

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<v Speaker 1>has gone down. That's right, the rioters got results. We'll

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<v Speaker 1>talk about what that means for their economy and for

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<v Speaker 1>ours coming up on the Buck Sexton Show. This is

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<v Speaker 1>the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission is

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<v Speaker 1>to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence, make no

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<v Speaker 1>mistake a great American again. The Buck Sexton Show begins. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>welcome to the Bucks Action Show. Everybody great to have

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<v Speaker 1>you with me. Apologies, is my voice sounds a little

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<v Speaker 1>funky or cracks or breaks. I am not actually going

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<v Speaker 1>through puberty right now. I just have a very bad cold.

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<v Speaker 1>So I am gonna push through because we got work

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<v Speaker 1>to do. Shields high and all that good stuff We've got.

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<v Speaker 1>We've got some milestones in the Special Council situation to

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<v Speaker 1>address right now. We have some milestones, some things coming

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<v Speaker 1>up here that may finally be the beginning of the

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<v Speaker 1>end of this nightmare, which those of you who've been

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<v Speaker 1>listening to show for a while now I've I knew

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<v Speaker 1>it was a disaster from day one. I knew this

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<v Speaker 1>was going to turn into exactly what it is, which

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<v Speaker 1>it's a politicized witch hunt. It has been going on

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<v Speaker 1>for eighteen months, five hundred and sixty seven days as

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<v Speaker 1>of today, five hundred and sixty seven days, that's how

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<v Speaker 1>long this has been in the works. Thirty three people

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<v Speaker 1>have been charged with crime since this whole thing began,

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<v Speaker 1>thirteen Russian nationals, twelve intelligence officers, the number of the

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<v Speaker 1>number of people who so wait, see this isn't so interesting.

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<v Speaker 1>You gotta add those two up. So you got twenty

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<v Speaker 1>twenty five people they're putting out there as prosecuted in

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<v Speaker 1>this whole thing, and those are Russian Facebook trols. You know.

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<v Speaker 1>They're trying to create, now a dossier, if you will,

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<v Speaker 1>you see what I did there, a dossier to make

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<v Speaker 1>it seem like this whole thing has not been a

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<v Speaker 1>giant politicized scandal, which is really what It is a

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<v Speaker 1>way of weaponizing politics, of using the power of investigation

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<v Speaker 1>and prosecution to political scores and differences to completely undermine

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<v Speaker 1>the notion that both parties are treated the same way

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<v Speaker 1>in the eyes of the law. I know, Democrats get

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<v Speaker 1>away with it, Republicans don't. In fact, not only do

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats get away with it, but Republicans get in trouble

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<v Speaker 1>for things they didn't even do. That's the way our

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<v Speaker 1>justice system seems to work at the very highest level,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's a very damaging, very damaging perception for the

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<v Speaker 1>American people to have. Overall, the only people who have

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<v Speaker 1>pleaded guilty to this that are in Trump's orbit are

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<v Speaker 1>Michael Cohen, who has pleaded guilty to tax fraud and

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<v Speaker 1>campaign finance charges. He is now going to be finding

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<v Speaker 1>out how long he's been He's going to get sentenced.

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<v Speaker 1>Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn pleaded guilty tolign to

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<v Speaker 1>the FBI. Paul Manner for Wor pleaded guilty to financial

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<v Speaker 1>and tact crimes, Rick Gates conspiracy related to financial crimes

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<v Speaker 1>and line to the FBI, Papadopoulos line to the FBI,

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<v Speaker 1>and then you got that guy Van der Zwan who

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<v Speaker 1>also lied to the FBI. Not a single charge on

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<v Speaker 1>the American side of this whole proposition. On the American

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<v Speaker 1>citizens who have had to face justice or in this case, injustice,

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<v Speaker 1>which is really what's happened. Not a single one has

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<v Speaker 1>anything to do anything at all to do with colluding

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<v Speaker 1>with the Russians, with trying to steal an election, anything

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<v Speaker 1>anything that would fall into that category. And now we

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<v Speaker 1>have some Now we have some things that are going

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<v Speaker 1>to come up. We have some additional additional information that

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<v Speaker 1>we can expect to happen here, to get released here

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<v Speaker 1>in the next few days. And I think that what

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<v Speaker 1>you'll find, mind, is that the Flynn because you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you've got the Flynn sentence in coming up, You've got

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<v Speaker 1>you know, Cohen his whole situation, closed door testimony with

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<v Speaker 1>James come although you're not gonna sank to Comey is

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<v Speaker 1>not going to give you anything interesting there. And then

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<v Speaker 1>there's all this speculation around whether or not the final

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<v Speaker 1>Muller Report is going to be released period, but also

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<v Speaker 1>going to be released in the next few weeks. And

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<v Speaker 1>with all of those things, with all those different realities

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<v Speaker 1>swirling around right now, those possibilities, I think it's important

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<v Speaker 1>not to lose sight of the fact that this has

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<v Speaker 1>been the greatest political sham, the biggest injustice perpetrated by

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<v Speaker 1>the Department of Justice in my lifetime. There's nothing that

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<v Speaker 1>anyone can say on this, based on all the facts

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<v Speaker 1>we have so far, that will changed my mind. I

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<v Speaker 1>am certain that this is corrupt. I am certain that

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<v Speaker 1>this has been unfair and wrong from the start because

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<v Speaker 1>of the origins of this whole investigation, but also when

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<v Speaker 1>you see in the processes that have been conducted here

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<v Speaker 1>such a clear anti conservative, anti Republican bias, it's jaw dropping,

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<v Speaker 1>it's jaw dropping, and this is what remind This is

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<v Speaker 1>where you really have to get into the fact that

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<v Speaker 1>this is a revenge of the establishment. That's what's pushing

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<v Speaker 1>I know it's the Democrats and Hillary, but it's also

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<v Speaker 1>more than that, because you know, you had all these

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<v Speaker 1>former members of the Justice Department signed some letter today

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<v Speaker 1>saying that they they disapprove of Whittaker being the acting

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<v Speaker 1>Attorney General. The truth is, if you were to go

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<v Speaker 1>back and look at at any number of senior Department

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<v Speaker 1>of Justice officials, I'm sure that they they despise Trump.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure they think that Trump is is, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>bad for all kinds of reasons. And it's because if

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<v Speaker 1>you've been working for the government for a long time,

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<v Speaker 1>and you've bought into the government as generally a positive

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<v Speaker 1>actor and one that is really the the shepherd of

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<v Speaker 1>the American people. You know, the government's not there to

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<v Speaker 1>protect our rights. This is one of the problems for

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<v Speaker 1>people who work in the bureaucracy. It's not that the

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<v Speaker 1>government protects our rights. It's that the government is there

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<v Speaker 1>to make us all better, better than we would otherwise be.

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<v Speaker 1>But the government is there because we need guidance from

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<v Speaker 1>the people that know more than us, that have a

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<v Speaker 1>better understanding of how things really are than we do,

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<v Speaker 1>and are in touch with their aspirations. It is public service,

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<v Speaker 1>after all that they say they're doing. But whether it's

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<v Speaker 1>Manifoort or Cohen or core see who we'll talk more

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<v Speaker 1>about later. None of these cases support the basic premise

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<v Speaker 1>of this entire investigation, which was that the President of

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<v Speaker 1>the United States, through intermediaries on his campaign, cheated use

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<v Speaker 1>the Russians to get information on Hillary so that he

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<v Speaker 1>could win the election. None of it. It's not there.

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<v Speaker 1>So we're now eighteen months into this, and for what

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<v Speaker 1>eighteen months into this, only that we can come to

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<v Speaker 1>the recognition that the left is so dug in that

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<v Speaker 1>they'll never change their mind on this. It does not

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<v Speaker 1>matter what the fact pattern is, It does not matter

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<v Speaker 1>what they dig up here. At the very end, the

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<v Speaker 1>Congress is just going to pick up wherever Muller leaves off,

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<v Speaker 1>being the Democrats are going to start running investigations. The

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<v Speaker 1>Democrats are going to push this thing as far as

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<v Speaker 1>they can because they get political mileage out of it.

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<v Speaker 1>There's no effort to find justice and truth in any

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<v Speaker 1>of this. They don't care about the lives that have

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<v Speaker 1>been ruined, the reputations that are destroyed. I mean, does

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<v Speaker 1>anyone really believe that General Flynn lied to these FBI

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<v Speaker 1>guys about this because he was so worried about finding

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<v Speaker 1>out what he had a legitimate phone call with the

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<v Speaker 1>Russian ambassador. There was no problem, There's no reason for

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<v Speaker 1>him to lie. People said, well, then Whitey lie, And

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<v Speaker 1>I'm saying, well, maybe they just are saying he lied.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe the people that like Muller are pushing these BS

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<v Speaker 1>cases are going along with these inflated prosecutions. Maybe they're liars.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh Buck, they can't be liars, really, Why you mean?

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<v Speaker 1>Like Deputy FBI Director then acting FBI Director Andy McCabe,

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<v Speaker 1>he can't lie. He lied under oath several times in

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<v Speaker 1>order to cover up his conduct in this whole thing.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you think Andy McCabe is the only one You

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<v Speaker 1>don't think the Komi lies? Please? You don't think that

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<v Speaker 1>Sally Yates is just a social justice warrior in the

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<v Speaker 1>disguise of a boring bureaucrat. Please, this is all there

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<v Speaker 1>for you to see. You just have to look. And

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<v Speaker 1>you can't accept what they tell you to accept. You

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<v Speaker 1>can't just believe the stories that are being concocted, in

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<v Speaker 1>some cases out of thin air, like the meeting with

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<v Speaker 1>Julian Assange and manipurth that never happened. My friends, the Guardian,

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<v Speaker 1>big international paper, came up with the story what was

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<v Speaker 1>it a week ago? Just a lie? Why would they

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<v Speaker 1>believe a story that's a lie? Why would they? Why

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<v Speaker 1>would they destroy their credibility? Oh? Because there's an international

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<v Speaker 1>hatred for Trump too, because of so much of the

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<v Speaker 1>truth that Trump represents. Because Trump is willing to say,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, America is better than a lot of these

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<v Speaker 1>other countries, and we're not gonna bend over anymore, bend

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<v Speaker 1>the knee and say sure we're all the same. No,

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna lead. We're gonna do it our way, and

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<v Speaker 1>we expect the respect that we deserve other countries. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>them gonna like that. I do like it at all.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, team, We've got a lot more show coming up.

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<v Speaker 1>We got more on the Mueller probe, and I'm going

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<v Speaker 1>to talk to you about these the riots and France

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<v Speaker 1>which have been successful in getting the gas tax. We

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<v Speaker 1>voked more on climate change there and then Bush forty

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<v Speaker 1>one and we got a jam Pack show. So stay

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<v Speaker 1>with me. We'll be right back. Rough day in the

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<v Speaker 1>markets today, my friends. I know we don't talk that

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<v Speaker 1>much about about the markets, and I want to get

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<v Speaker 1>back to the Muller probe here in just a few moments.

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<v Speaker 1>Rough Day in the markets though, And this I want

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<v Speaker 1>you to pay attention to this, just because you're going

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<v Speaker 1>to see an emboldened left here. You're going to see

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<v Speaker 1>we're talking about Alcazio, Cortez and Warren and Sanders later

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<v Speaker 1>on in the show. But it's it's very hard people,

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<v Speaker 1>don't you know. The social justice warrior rhetoric doesn't resonate

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<v Speaker 1>quite the same way when unemployments at record sixty year low.

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<v Speaker 1>When Black of Hispanic on a employment as it is

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<v Speaker 1>currently in this country is that it's all time low.

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<v Speaker 1>When the stock market is doing incredibly well, job growth

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<v Speaker 1>is very strong. You know, people don't really want to

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<v Speaker 1>hear that much about Marxism and redistribution wealth. It's when

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<v Speaker 1>things get scary, It's when the left has a crisis

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<v Speaker 1>to exploit. That's when it's time for the rest of

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<v Speaker 1>us to worry. And we may be heading into that territory.

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<v Speaker 1>And there's a lot of factors. And I'll tell you

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<v Speaker 1>one thing. One thing that you know about the economy

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<v Speaker 1>is that everyone who tells you they have the answer

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't have the answer. There's so many things that go

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<v Speaker 1>into this. You're talking about a vast, vast, almost chaos system.

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<v Speaker 1>When you're looking at the entirety of the US economy

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<v Speaker 1>and ties with the global economy, it's I mean, it's

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<v Speaker 1>probably technically not a chaos system, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 1>It's so much going on that it's very hard to

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<v Speaker 1>look at this and pinpoint one thing as the reason

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<v Speaker 1>for this. But you know, when you have the dow

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<v Speaker 1>drop whatever was six hundred some points today are saying

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<v Speaker 1>the economy is slowing down, there's some aspect of it

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<v Speaker 1>that's certainly cyclical. Um, there is some aspect of it

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<v Speaker 1>that is the result of our unwillingness, and this is

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<v Speaker 1>a bipartisan unwillingness to change our ways, to spend less money,

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<v Speaker 1>to be less involved in um, you know, less involved

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<v Speaker 1>in saddling future generations with debt. You know, no one

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<v Speaker 1>wants to do that. No one wants to touch medicare

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<v Speaker 1>and medicate don't. No one seems to care that we're

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<v Speaker 1>twenty one tillion dollars in debt, but the numbers care

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<v Speaker 1>and eventually this will all cutch up to us. And

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<v Speaker 1>eventually it could be you know, a few months from

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<v Speaker 1>now now. I don't think that the global economy is

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<v Speaker 1>going to completely tank and collapse. I think that if

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<v Speaker 1>you know you're you're a betting man or woman. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>America is going to be wealthier in ten years than

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<v Speaker 1>it is today. I think that's a fair I think

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<v Speaker 1>that's a fairly certain bet to make. But what does

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<v Speaker 1>it look like for the Trump administration and conservatism in

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<v Speaker 1>this country and limited government If we have a president

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<v Speaker 1>who is as embattled by the media as he currently is,

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<v Speaker 1>with as much left wing hatred for him as we

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<v Speaker 1>have seen going on now for a long time. We

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<v Speaker 1>have all those things, and on top of that, you

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<v Speaker 1>have an economy that's that's in recession. I mean, that's

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<v Speaker 1>really talking about. This has been my concern all along

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<v Speaker 1>the way, that you get a far left, really destructive candidate.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean someone described me in today that that, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>Barack Obama. Where people don't realize is that for entrepreneurs

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<v Speaker 1>and businesses that weren't highly, highly entrenched and politically connected,

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<v Speaker 1>that Barack Obama was like an eight year waterboarding for

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<v Speaker 1>American capitalism, which I thought it was a pretty funny

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<v Speaker 1>way of describing it. But you know, the truth is

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<v Speaker 1>that if we have a recession, if we have this

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<v Speaker 1>major setback and it's gonna take a while to come

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<v Speaker 1>out of it, you your recession is it's gonna be painful,

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<v Speaker 1>and then you got to dig your way out. And

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<v Speaker 1>that coincides with the twenty twenty election. That's how I

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<v Speaker 1>think you look. I'll say it that so I think

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<v Speaker 1>you could end up with the President Sanders, as nuts

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<v Speaker 1>as that may sound, as much as we could sit

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<v Speaker 1>here and say, hold hold on, hold on a second,

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<v Speaker 1>hold on a second. You can't spend thirty four trillion

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<v Speaker 1>dollars on Medicare for All that you don't have. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I think if you were to cut out all all

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<v Speaker 1>defense spending you would manage to get Well, we're spending

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<v Speaker 1>basically a eight hundred eight hundred billion dollars a year

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<v Speaker 1>on defense. So if you're looking at let's just call

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<v Speaker 1>it thirty four trillion dollars of spending over a ten

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<v Speaker 1>year period for Medicare for all, it's essentially a complete

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<v Speaker 1>doubling of the federal budget for all other for all expenditures,

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<v Speaker 1>it doubles the federal budget. You could get rid of

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<v Speaker 1>all military spending. You wouldn't even put a dent in

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<v Speaker 1>Medicare for all, not even a dent, so I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean maybe a dent, but not you can get

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<v Speaker 1>not even close to paying for it, I mean a

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<v Speaker 1>fraction of it. So how do you get a politician

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<v Speaker 1>who's going to come into office and when when the

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<v Speaker 1>numbers don't add up, When when there's clearly no way

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<v Speaker 1>for anybody with a calculator and a basic grasp of

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<v Speaker 1>facts and say yeah, they're policy works with the way

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<v Speaker 1>you do it, the way you make it all happen

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<v Speaker 1>is you you prey upon people's fears. You prey upon

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<v Speaker 1>their concerns that the dollar is crashing, that they're not

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<v Speaker 1>going to have a job, that their their industry is

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<v Speaker 1>going away, and they're not gonna be able to feed

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<v Speaker 1>their families. And you say, I'll save you. I'll come along.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll be the one who Just give me more control,

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<v Speaker 1>Just give me more power over finances in this country,

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<v Speaker 1>over everything, over the law, over the economy. And I'm worried.

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<v Speaker 1>I think we have a confluence of factors here that

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<v Speaker 1>going into twenty twenty, and we're already there. We're already

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<v Speaker 1>at the beginning of the twenty twenty ramp all right,

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<v Speaker 1>the ramping up is happening now. I were that as

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<v Speaker 1>we get closer to that, what we're going to see

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<v Speaker 1>is that the economy starts to go bad and the

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<v Speaker 1>radicals on the left will be ascendant. Trump will just

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<v Speaker 1>be completely under siege, and we could end up having

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<v Speaker 1>a aneleectoral disaster befall us in twenty twenty one that

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<v Speaker 1>would make unfortunately Trump's miraculous win. I feel like a

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<v Speaker 1>distant memory, but I got to talk to you about

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<v Speaker 1>Jerome Corsi in the Special Council I don't want to

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<v Speaker 1>skip past that's that's coming up here in just a moment.

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<v Speaker 1>Stay with me. The key thing was that they wanted

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<v Speaker 1>me to be the key link between. It was going

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<v Speaker 1>to be Roger Stone to me to Julian Assage, and

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<v Speaker 1>then they'd have all their collusion together. It would be

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<v Speaker 1>Roger Stone to Steve Bannon to Donald Trump and coordination

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<v Speaker 1>with Assage. Except I figured out on my own Assange

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<v Speaker 1>had Podesta's emails. I never have met Assange. I've never

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<v Speaker 1>talked to Assange or emailed him, and I have no

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<v Speaker 1>contact with anyone who is in touch with Assange. And

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<v Speaker 1>the prosecutors refused to believe this, so it led to

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<v Speaker 1>grilling after grilling after grilling. You know, there's Jerome Corsi

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<v Speaker 1>just saying that the prosecutors, the Mueller probe, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>they they have a very clear agenda. And I think

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<v Speaker 1>we all know that that's been true from the start.

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<v Speaker 1>But remember the prosecutors. We've come to accept that prosecutors

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<v Speaker 1>are trying to get to a certain outcome in this case,

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<v Speaker 1>they are trying to prove that Trump colluded with Russia.

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<v Speaker 1>And what he's saying, what Corsi's saying here is that

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<v Speaker 1>it's very obvious in his dealings with them that that's

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<v Speaker 1>they're they're going after him now on a minor not

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<v Speaker 1>even really a lie, a misremember ring of something that

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<v Speaker 1>is not important, and that they that they already knew

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<v Speaker 1>or remember that too. He lied about fording an email.

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<v Speaker 1>They had all his emails, That's how they knew he lied.

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<v Speaker 1>So they already knew that he was in contact with somebody.

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<v Speaker 1>So why would he lie? And I don't mean that,

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<v Speaker 1>why would he lie? There must be something more there.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm saying clearly it's an error, a good faith there

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<v Speaker 1>or not a you know, he wasn't going to get

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<v Speaker 1>away with it. I mean if somebody, you know, if

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<v Speaker 1>I sit down with the police and they say, all right,

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<v Speaker 1>we've got your phone records in our hand, who did

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<v Speaker 1>you call last week? Name everybody you called last week?

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<v Speaker 1>And I named, you know, seven of the eight people.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't leave off that eighth person because I think

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna you know, you know, managed to drop that

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<v Speaker 1>one off the radar. I just didn't remember, right, That's

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<v Speaker 1>effectively what they did to Corsi. But but the more

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<v Speaker 1>important point here is that he knows from having to

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<v Speaker 1>deal with them that they're trying to get to a

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<v Speaker 1>certain now that they're trying to prove that something happened,

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<v Speaker 1>even though as any prosecutor, as any investigator will tell you, remember,

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<v Speaker 1>as a special prosecutor, they're investigating something. They're supposed to

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<v Speaker 1>be investigators. If the facts lead them away from the

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<v Speaker 1>conclusion that a crime was committed, that's really important too,

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<v Speaker 1>you know. It's it's the cases that you don't bring,

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<v Speaker 1>that you don't prosecute, that you step away from as

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<v Speaker 1>a prosecutor that really defined your judgment and your ability

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<v Speaker 1>to get justice for people you're not supposed to say, Oh, well,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I was told to get this guy, so

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just gonna get him. And it is very clear

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<v Speaker 1>to me from what we've seen so far that this

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<v Speaker 1>is all that the end state here has already been determined.

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<v Speaker 1>Trump did something bad. That's what Muller thinks, or rather

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<v Speaker 1>that's what Muller wants to show, whether it happened or not.

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<v Speaker 1>That's he wants to take Trump down for doing the

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<v Speaker 1>bad thing. And every step that Muller takes in the intern,

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<v Speaker 1>he's meant to create that perception and make that the reality.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not Oh, you know what, we don't have the

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<v Speaker 1>information that we thought we would here. Maybe we should

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<v Speaker 1>step away from this. Maybe this actually didn't happen the way. No,

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<v Speaker 1>they're always just coming back with another version. But by

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<v Speaker 1>the way, you know, this reminds me of the Durst

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<v Speaker 1>said this to me on my show. First, I'm just saying,

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<v Speaker 1>and then later he went on to say it on

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<v Speaker 1>some other shows. I think this was him on Fox.

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<v Speaker 1>This is what Dursh feels about this Coursi situation playclip eight.

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<v Speaker 1>In fifty five years of practicing criminal law, I have

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<v Speaker 1>never heard or read of any case where a person

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<v Speaker 1>was allowed to amend his testimony and then corrected it

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<v Speaker 1>and was then threatened with indictment for the unamended original

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<v Speaker 1>alleged lie. That just seems utterly unprecedented. If those facts

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<v Speaker 1>are correct, I think he would have a very defensible

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<v Speaker 1>case and it would have a pretty good chance of winning,

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<v Speaker 1>and probably would be why it's not necessarily to capitulate

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<v Speaker 1>to the threats of prosecution. Isn't that interesting here? You

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<v Speaker 1>have whatever you think of him in his politics. Dersh

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<v Speaker 1>the Dirsh is a seasoned, seasoned attorney and a very

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<v Speaker 1>sharp legal mind. And he's saying, of course he should

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<v Speaker 1>stand stand tall on this one, assuming the fact pattern is.

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<v Speaker 1>Of course he says it is. And look, I know

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<v Speaker 1>people said, of course he's a conspiracy theorist. Whatever. He's

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<v Speaker 1>a smart guy. You know this is no, we're not

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<v Speaker 1>dealing with Alex Jones here, even though I know he

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<v Speaker 1>works with Alex Jones. Of course, he strikes me as

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<v Speaker 1>a pretty sharp individual, meaning that you know, his synapses

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<v Speaker 1>fire pretty quickly upstairs. And you know, this could be

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<v Speaker 1>a real stumma black. I mean, can you imagine for

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<v Speaker 1>a second he refuses to take this, you know, they

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<v Speaker 1>say they're gonna charge, and refuses to take the day

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<v Speaker 1>he refuses to flip? What if he beats it? What

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<v Speaker 1>if Corsi And I know this is a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>of supposition right now, and who knows, but imagine for

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<v Speaker 1>a moment that the guy who's like working at info

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<v Speaker 1>Wars and all and and has this long history with

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<v Speaker 1>the he actually got into an exchange with with Jamal

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<v Speaker 1>from from Hill TV works with me. Jamal's a Democrat,

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<v Speaker 1>great guy, He's a Democrat. Uh, And they got an

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<v Speaker 1>exchange about the Obama birth certificate that just got that

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<v Speaker 1>just got fiery because course he really does believe or

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<v Speaker 1>at least says he believes that the birth certificate that

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<v Speaker 1>we've never seen the original, you know, and I see that,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, oh my gosh, just anything, anything but the

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<v Speaker 1>birth certificate discussion. I was, I was stuck on TV

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<v Speaker 1>for that one. Um. But you know, you can, you

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<v Speaker 1>can bring up all those issues. But that guy Corsi

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<v Speaker 1>may be the first one who stands up to the

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<v Speaker 1>Mueller machine and wins. And what would that say? What

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<v Speaker 1>would that tell you if in fact he fights this

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<v Speaker 1>and we because you let me answer the question, what

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<v Speaker 1>that would show you is that, sure enough, this is

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<v Speaker 1>just about perjury trap. Sure enough, this whole thing has

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<v Speaker 1>been find people, find a way to twist the law,

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<v Speaker 1>to put them in criminal jeopardy, to threaten to lock

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<v Speaker 1>them up unless they tell you everything they know about everything.

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<v Speaker 1>And Dersch also said that, by the way play nine,

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<v Speaker 1>the modus operandi of the Special Council is to get

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<v Speaker 1>as many people as possible to commit perjury or to lie,

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<v Speaker 1>and then squeeze them and use pressure on them to

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<v Speaker 1>have them testify against the major targets of the investigation.

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<v Speaker 1>And what Judge Ella said appropriately. Is the risk of

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<v Speaker 1>that is not only will some people sing, but they

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<v Speaker 1>will compose, they will elaborate, they will tell the story

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<v Speaker 1>even better because they know that the better the story,

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<v Speaker 1>the better the deal. That's right, And here's what everyone

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<v Speaker 1>really needs to remember. Here's what you won't hear from

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<v Speaker 1>anyone else. But I can see this one coming with Corsi.

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<v Speaker 1>What they want isn't necessarily for him to give the

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<v Speaker 1>smoking gun of Russia Trump collusion that is a criminal issue.

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<v Speaker 1>All they need is Corsi to go on the record

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<v Speaker 1>for having been part of some murky effort to get

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<v Speaker 1>in touch with Wiki leaks to get this information. And

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<v Speaker 1>then what they have and what they will release in

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<v Speaker 1>the final Special Council report is the politically fatal accusation

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<v Speaker 1>of collusion that should be impeached, not collusion that should

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<v Speaker 1>be prosecuted. That's what they're trying to get from Corsi

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<v Speaker 1>volunteering to serve in World War Two, as I was

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<v Speaker 1>going on to service as ambassador CIA to Congressman, vice

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<v Speaker 1>president president, a whole life of public service. Donald Trup

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<v Speaker 1>has been a life of service to himself. They both

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<v Speaker 1>believe that the presidency is bigger than themselves, which is

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<v Speaker 1>not something that this president always adheres to. But I

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<v Speaker 1>think this is also a twenty four hours of nostalgia

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<v Speaker 1>about what leadership used to look like in this country.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a great clip from nineteen eighty when George H. W.

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<v Speaker 1>Bush is challenged on how tough he is, and he

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<v Speaker 1>talks about toughness is about having values and standing for them,

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<v Speaker 1>being principles. Toughness is not attacking. He understood that the

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<v Speaker 1>press wasn't the enemy of the people and even said basically,

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<v Speaker 1>at the end of the day, we're all in this together,

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<v Speaker 1>and I will be here for you, just like I

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<v Speaker 1>know you would be here for me. What a remarkable

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<v Speaker 1>difference between nineteen eighty eight and twenty eighteen. At a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of kind of back handid praise for Bush forty

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<v Speaker 1>one from the media establishment, you know, a lot of well,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll put aside the things that we disagree with them

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<v Speaker 1>on just so we can bash Trump. You know, there's

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<v Speaker 1>just there's there's all this dishonesty around around the conversation.

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<v Speaker 1>I would say this to you, I mean, their favorite,

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<v Speaker 1>the media's favorite thing about Bush forty one is that

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<v Speaker 1>he was a one term Republican president. Let's start with that.

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<v Speaker 1>That is their number one favorite thing is that maybe

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<v Speaker 1>if he were more of a political pugilist, if he

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't so gentlemanly in his approach, he might have won

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<v Speaker 1>a second term. Ohoh, you know, look, it's would it

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<v Speaker 1>could have showed a who really knows. But you know,

0:27:42.119 --> 0:27:44.760
<v Speaker 1>the Bush Bush forty one, when he was in office,

0:27:44.760 --> 0:27:47.520
<v Speaker 1>they were saying that he was a warmonger. Uh you know,

0:27:47.760 --> 0:27:49.680
<v Speaker 1>no blood for oil. I mean, these were all the

0:27:49.760 --> 0:27:52.240
<v Speaker 1>things that you would hear about at the time. And

0:27:52.440 --> 0:27:55.080
<v Speaker 1>now you know, some of those same voices are coming

0:27:55.080 --> 0:27:57.600
<v Speaker 1>out to say, well, let's just take this as an

0:27:57.640 --> 0:28:02.919
<v Speaker 1>opportunity to bash to bash Trump, and like Trump went,

0:28:03.040 --> 0:28:07.240
<v Speaker 1>Trump is he's appearing at the funeral. You know, I

0:28:07.320 --> 0:28:09.480
<v Speaker 1>think he's handled this. I think he's handled this well.

0:28:09.560 --> 0:28:14.520
<v Speaker 1>I also think that the country's you know, fascination with

0:28:15.000 --> 0:28:17.680
<v Speaker 1>every minute of the remembrance in the aftermath of a

0:28:17.760 --> 0:28:21.560
<v Speaker 1>president's life. It's interesting, it does feel, and I have

0:28:21.720 --> 0:28:25.720
<v Speaker 1>a lot of respect for Push forty one. Now, I

0:28:25.800 --> 0:28:27.440
<v Speaker 1>never met him. I obviously met his son a couple

0:28:27.480 --> 0:28:29.920
<v Speaker 1>of times when I was at the CIA and gave

0:28:30.000 --> 0:28:33.960
<v Speaker 1>him some briefings. I never met Bush forty one. But

0:28:34.240 --> 0:28:38.000
<v Speaker 1>I am just gonna say that the pomp and circumstance

0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:40.320
<v Speaker 1>around Maybe this is just from the media coverage angle

0:28:40.360 --> 0:28:42.640
<v Speaker 1>of it, right, like the guy should have a safety,

0:28:42.720 --> 0:28:44.360
<v Speaker 1>but the pomp and circumstance of some of this, it

0:28:44.480 --> 0:28:46.920
<v Speaker 1>does start to feel a little bit like we have

0:28:47.200 --> 0:28:51.360
<v Speaker 1>a you know, this is like the king, and I

0:28:51.440 --> 0:28:54.160
<v Speaker 1>mean this in a in a monarchical sense, right that

0:28:54.200 --> 0:28:57.560
<v Speaker 1>the monarchy has lost one of its own. You know,

0:28:58.080 --> 0:29:00.560
<v Speaker 1>there's there are there are limits, So I think to

0:29:00.720 --> 0:29:08.200
<v Speaker 1>what good taste and and prudence dictate for how much

0:29:08.320 --> 0:29:11.080
<v Speaker 1>time and how much that you know, the country should

0:29:11.960 --> 0:29:15.080
<v Speaker 1>have to focus on the passing of a future president.

0:29:15.080 --> 0:29:17.160
<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying we've passed those limits whom, just saying,

0:29:17.200 --> 0:29:18.680
<v Speaker 1>you know, we need to be aware of it. I

0:29:18.760 --> 0:29:21.120
<v Speaker 1>think there's a lot of and this ties into a

0:29:21.200 --> 0:29:24.280
<v Speaker 1>bigger conversation than I always want to have, which is

0:29:24.600 --> 0:29:28.040
<v Speaker 1>I don't think that we should I don't think that

0:29:28.080 --> 0:29:32.520
<v Speaker 1>we should call former members of government by there. You know,

0:29:32.520 --> 0:29:34.520
<v Speaker 1>I don't think that you should still be Speaker when

0:29:34.560 --> 0:29:36.680
<v Speaker 1>you were Speak of the House and art anymore. I

0:29:36.720 --> 0:29:38.959
<v Speaker 1>don't think you should be called ambassador even when you're

0:29:39.000 --> 0:29:43.120
<v Speaker 1>no longer ambassador. I don't think, you know, any government

0:29:43.120 --> 0:29:45.120
<v Speaker 1>appointed title. I don't think you carry that with you

0:29:45.200 --> 0:29:48.040
<v Speaker 1>the rest of your life. And I start to see

0:29:48.200 --> 0:29:52.520
<v Speaker 1>some of this, some aspects of an entrenched political political

0:29:52.600 --> 0:29:55.160
<v Speaker 1>class here that really does feel I mean, how different

0:29:55.240 --> 0:29:57.800
<v Speaker 1>is is it really from you know, the court of

0:29:57.880 --> 0:30:02.560
<v Speaker 1>King Louis or whatever. There's a you know, the whole

0:30:02.680 --> 0:30:05.280
<v Speaker 1>nation is supposed to look. I mean, did anybody who

0:30:05.320 --> 0:30:08.840
<v Speaker 1>served under under a president or had personal contact with

0:30:08.880 --> 0:30:10.920
<v Speaker 1>the president. People can feel however they want about this,

0:30:11.200 --> 0:30:13.000
<v Speaker 1>but if I knew the man, obviously I'd have a

0:30:13.080 --> 0:30:16.920
<v Speaker 1>particular connection to it. I just think that the expectation,

0:30:17.080 --> 0:30:22.840
<v Speaker 1>the expectation for a kind of national not just national mourning,

0:30:22.880 --> 0:30:28.480
<v Speaker 1>but also adulation whenever a politician, which is quite honestly

0:30:28.520 --> 0:30:33.040
<v Speaker 1>we're talking about, passes away. It just I'm just saying,

0:30:33.080 --> 0:30:35.640
<v Speaker 1>I think we should be aware so that it does

0:30:35.800 --> 0:30:40.520
<v Speaker 1>not carry over into a sense of, you know, we

0:30:40.600 --> 0:30:45.479
<v Speaker 1>are celebrating our our our what's the you know, our

0:30:45.520 --> 0:30:49.440
<v Speaker 1>our perman not just a permanent political class, but celebrating nobility.

0:30:50.560 --> 0:30:53.680
<v Speaker 1>That's that's you know, We're not there with Brush forty

0:30:53.680 --> 0:30:56.240
<v Speaker 1>one because he's a Republican. But I'm telling you, you wait,

0:30:56.360 --> 0:30:59.920
<v Speaker 1>until you know, the media has a Democrat president who

0:31:00.040 --> 0:31:01.920
<v Speaker 1>passes away. I remember, and this is also the good

0:31:01.960 --> 0:31:04.440
<v Speaker 1>thing here is you got Bush forty one, a life

0:31:04.480 --> 0:31:09.800
<v Speaker 1>incredibly well lived and and you know, incredible service. I mean,

0:31:09.800 --> 0:31:12.520
<v Speaker 1>you know, the guy died of old age. He had

0:31:12.560 --> 0:31:14.440
<v Speaker 1>done it all, man, I mean, he had done it all.

0:31:16.360 --> 0:31:18.240
<v Speaker 1>So as much as as much as a funeral can

0:31:18.320 --> 0:31:20.360
<v Speaker 1>be a celebration of someone's life, I think Bush forty

0:31:20.400 --> 0:31:24.320
<v Speaker 1>ones is. But I just noticed that there's this, you know,

0:31:24.840 --> 0:31:28.440
<v Speaker 1>you know, everybody, it feels a little bit like there's

0:31:28.440 --> 0:31:31.920
<v Speaker 1>almost a forced reverence around this, which and I mean

0:31:32.000 --> 0:31:34.320
<v Speaker 1>for those of us who are walking around just going

0:31:34.360 --> 0:31:36.320
<v Speaker 1>about our day to day lives, you know, every time

0:31:36.400 --> 0:31:38.880
<v Speaker 1>we open a newspaper and everything else, this is the

0:31:39.240 --> 0:31:42.720
<v Speaker 1>This is the main, the main focus. And there's a

0:31:42.800 --> 0:31:44.600
<v Speaker 1>lot of stuff still going on in the world. There

0:31:44.640 --> 0:31:46.760
<v Speaker 1>are a lot of things happening here, a lot of concerns,

0:31:46.760 --> 0:31:52.320
<v Speaker 1>a lot of problems. We're going pretty deep into. Okay,

0:31:52.480 --> 0:31:56.000
<v Speaker 1>let's let's not have our third twenty four hour news

0:31:56.040 --> 0:32:00.400
<v Speaker 1>cycle where the main thing we're talking about is the

0:32:00.600 --> 0:32:05.640
<v Speaker 1>you know, the I don't know, the sort of circumstances

0:32:05.720 --> 0:32:09.920
<v Speaker 1>and ceremonies surrounding the passing of a former of a

0:32:10.040 --> 0:32:12.680
<v Speaker 1>former president. I know that maybe maybe I'm off on

0:32:12.760 --> 0:32:15.080
<v Speaker 1>my own this one. I just, you know, I don't

0:32:15.120 --> 0:32:17.600
<v Speaker 1>I don't like titles of nobility for people that served.

0:32:17.640 --> 0:32:19.320
<v Speaker 1>And this is separate from the Bush conversation, but I

0:32:19.360 --> 0:32:21.280
<v Speaker 1>don't like titles of nobility. I don't like people that

0:32:21.760 --> 0:32:24.680
<v Speaker 1>walk around are still called congressman when they're not a congressman.

0:32:24.800 --> 0:32:27.840
<v Speaker 1>You know that, no, we we should not have that.

0:32:28.960 --> 0:32:31.760
<v Speaker 1>And also, you know, the passing of George H. W.

0:32:32.000 --> 0:32:37.360
<v Speaker 1>Bush Is is deeply sad for his family members and

0:32:37.520 --> 0:32:39.520
<v Speaker 1>for his friends and people who knew him the way

0:32:39.520 --> 0:32:42.200
<v Speaker 1>it would be. But that's true of anyone who passes away, right,

0:32:42.280 --> 0:32:44.640
<v Speaker 1>So I don't know that the rest of the country

0:32:45.320 --> 0:32:47.840
<v Speaker 1>should should be told that we have to feel anyway

0:32:47.840 --> 0:32:52.560
<v Speaker 1>about this other than you know, being respectful. And I

0:32:52.680 --> 0:32:55.520
<v Speaker 1>just it's also I'm somebody who the few funerals, Thank Heavens,

0:32:55.560 --> 0:32:57.600
<v Speaker 1>I've been to very few. The few funerals I've been to,

0:32:57.720 --> 0:33:01.640
<v Speaker 1>I'm never you know, I never really know what to

0:33:01.760 --> 0:33:04.080
<v Speaker 1>say at them, to anybody. And I know, I know

0:33:04.200 --> 0:33:05.880
<v Speaker 1>this is a common thing. A lot of people feel

0:33:05.920 --> 0:33:09.560
<v Speaker 1>that way, But at a Bush at this funeral though,

0:33:09.600 --> 0:33:11.520
<v Speaker 1>at bushy once funeral, I think it'd be pretty easy.

0:33:11.560 --> 0:33:15.960
<v Speaker 1>This guy served his country and led a great life

0:33:16.040 --> 0:33:19.040
<v Speaker 1>and was incredible what he contributed, and you may rest

0:33:19.080 --> 0:33:21.760
<v Speaker 1>in peace and be with God and the angels. Um.

0:33:22.080 --> 0:33:24.840
<v Speaker 1>That's my take. But then there's there's Nicole Wallace over

0:33:24.960 --> 0:33:29.440
<v Speaker 1>at speaking of the forest reverence. She's talking about how

0:33:30.960 --> 0:33:33.720
<v Speaker 1>uh you know, the Bush motorcade was actually arriving on

0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:37.360
<v Speaker 1>Capitol Hill and and at that very moment, here's what

0:33:37.560 --> 0:33:40.600
<v Speaker 1>Nicole Wallace of MSNBC, so you got you gotta imagine

0:33:41.080 --> 0:33:44.240
<v Speaker 1>on the screen you have the funeral motorcade arriving on

0:33:44.320 --> 0:33:46.880
<v Speaker 1>Capitol Hill, and then Nicole Wallace has a following play eleven.

0:33:47.280 --> 0:33:50.040
<v Speaker 1>I think what everyone's getting at is that under Donald Trump,

0:33:50.200 --> 0:33:52.920
<v Speaker 1>the office of the presidency has been debased in a

0:33:53.000 --> 0:33:57.240
<v Speaker 1>way that is unimaginable for people who served every past president.

0:33:57.520 --> 0:34:00.480
<v Speaker 1>I think what's lost in this moment is our reverence

0:34:00.520 --> 0:34:03.760
<v Speaker 1>and our dependence and our and the way we need

0:34:03.840 --> 0:34:06.800
<v Speaker 1>and rely upon the elegance and the traditions of the

0:34:06.840 --> 0:34:14.080
<v Speaker 1>presidency and the elegance the elegance of the presidency. Did

0:34:14.160 --> 0:34:16.359
<v Speaker 1>we did we have the elegance of the presidency during

0:34:16.400 --> 0:34:20.520
<v Speaker 1>the Clinton years. Did we have a president who was

0:34:20.640 --> 0:34:25.919
<v Speaker 1>a model of upstanding and upright behavior for eight years

0:34:26.000 --> 0:34:32.000
<v Speaker 1>with Clinton? I just did the select the selectivity here

0:34:32.200 --> 0:34:37.120
<v Speaker 1>of what parts of Trump at his persona we we

0:34:37.280 --> 0:34:39.800
<v Speaker 1>pick on and what we leave out from from Democrats.

0:34:39.800 --> 0:34:42.399
<v Speaker 1>I mean, everything feels like a partisan battle these days.

0:34:42.440 --> 0:34:46.200
<v Speaker 1>Even when describing aspects of the presidency that you think

0:34:46.239 --> 0:34:49.239
<v Speaker 1>would be nonpartisan, they somehow turn it into a commentary

0:34:49.440 --> 0:34:52.239
<v Speaker 1>on Trump. Everything now has to be a commentary on Trump.

0:34:52.280 --> 0:34:55.799
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0:34:55.840 --> 0:34:59.440
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<v Speaker 1>The wrong when you say that the America dropped out

0:35:59.800 --> 0:36:02.720
<v Speaker 1>of the Paris Agreement. It's the states in the cities.

0:36:02.880 --> 0:36:07.560
<v Speaker 1>It's local governments that control seventy percent of our emissions.

0:36:08.400 --> 0:36:12.279
<v Speaker 1>The United States is still in. Yes, we have a

0:36:12.360 --> 0:36:16.399
<v Speaker 1>machuregunate leader in Washington that is not in, that is out.

0:36:17.360 --> 0:36:20.080
<v Speaker 1>But remember that America is more than just Washington, no

0:36:20.160 --> 0:36:24.960
<v Speaker 1>one leader. I wish that it could be the terminator

0:36:26.520 --> 0:36:29.680
<v Speaker 1>in real life, to be able to travel back on

0:36:29.880 --> 0:36:34.840
<v Speaker 1>time and to stop all faster fuels when they were discovered.

0:36:36.360 --> 0:36:39.600
<v Speaker 1>Be the terminator, go back and say stop driving your cause,

0:36:39.800 --> 0:36:44.480
<v Speaker 1>stop all your economic progress, stop spewing the field two

0:36:44.560 --> 0:36:50.480
<v Speaker 1>in the air. That would be the worst action movie ever.

0:36:52.200 --> 0:36:54.480
<v Speaker 1>What are you doing with all your economic progress? You're

0:36:54.480 --> 0:36:59.320
<v Speaker 1>ont realized nation. You have to stop it. Schwarzenegger was

0:36:59.360 --> 0:37:02.440
<v Speaker 1>at a what was this now in the southern Polish

0:37:02.520 --> 0:37:06.120
<v Speaker 1>city of Cadavis. I don't know how you say that,

0:37:06.880 --> 0:37:10.640
<v Speaker 1>where you had thousands of international decision makers holding their

0:37:12.560 --> 0:37:16.320
<v Speaker 1>holding negotiations at a UN climate conference known as COP

0:37:16.560 --> 0:37:19.759
<v Speaker 1>twenty four. I've got, oh my gosh, I've got so

0:37:19.880 --> 0:37:21.920
<v Speaker 1>many thoughts on this. One of them one is the following.

0:37:23.560 --> 0:37:27.080
<v Speaker 1>These climate change conferences are are really a kind of

0:37:27.200 --> 0:37:31.520
<v Speaker 1>internationalist subculture under themselves. All these people get to show

0:37:31.640 --> 0:37:35.080
<v Speaker 1>up somebody else's is generally footing the bill, right, a

0:37:35.160 --> 0:37:38.080
<v Speaker 1>lot of different governments and NGOs, And if you will

0:37:38.120 --> 0:37:40.600
<v Speaker 1>get to show up at these conferences, they all get

0:37:40.640 --> 0:37:44.600
<v Speaker 1>to feel very important and they get they get to

0:37:44.680 --> 0:37:47.800
<v Speaker 1>pretend like they're part of saving the world. And I

0:37:47.840 --> 0:37:50.560
<v Speaker 1>don't mean that in exaggerated, in an exaggerated form. I

0:37:50.640 --> 0:37:54.080
<v Speaker 1>mean they actually think that they are part of saving

0:37:54.160 --> 0:37:59.480
<v Speaker 1>the world. And they will bear no consequences of ault

0:37:59.480 --> 0:38:02.759
<v Speaker 1>of these They will suffer not at all. And so

0:38:02.960 --> 0:38:05.880
<v Speaker 1>that's why who wouldn't want to be a part of this. Right,

0:38:06.040 --> 0:38:08.080
<v Speaker 1>Once you get in, once you get in good with

0:38:08.160 --> 0:38:10.440
<v Speaker 1>this climate change crowd, you get to go to the conferences,

0:38:11.760 --> 0:38:14.279
<v Speaker 1>probably fly on some fancy private jets to get there,

0:38:15.280 --> 0:38:17.480
<v Speaker 1>and you know that what Trump is I'm sorry what

0:38:17.719 --> 0:38:22.000
<v Speaker 1>Schwarzenegger was saying about Trump. Schwarzenegger was saying that, you know,

0:38:22.160 --> 0:38:24.600
<v Speaker 1>maybe the president is out, but all the local and

0:38:24.680 --> 0:38:27.719
<v Speaker 1>state governments are in. This just goes to show you,

0:38:27.760 --> 0:38:32.840
<v Speaker 1>I mean, who cares? Who cares? What you know, Vermont

0:38:33.000 --> 0:38:35.759
<v Speaker 1>thinks about climate change? Who cares? Even in California thinks

0:38:35.760 --> 0:38:37.799
<v Speaker 1>about climate change other than the residents who live there.

0:38:37.800 --> 0:38:40.480
<v Speaker 1>I have to who have to deal with the crappy

0:38:40.560 --> 0:38:43.239
<v Speaker 1>policies that will come out of all of this. But

0:38:43.520 --> 0:38:45.920
<v Speaker 1>in terms of the difference that it can make to

0:38:46.080 --> 0:38:48.759
<v Speaker 1>the problems such as such as it is or in

0:38:49.640 --> 0:38:52.480
<v Speaker 1>my estimation as it isn't they're not even putting a

0:38:52.560 --> 0:38:56.239
<v Speaker 1>dent in this. You know, there's just no sense of

0:38:57.680 --> 0:39:01.120
<v Speaker 1>perspective or context with these climate angel armist you know,

0:39:01.239 --> 0:39:03.359
<v Speaker 1>I mean, here, here's a way to a good way

0:39:03.400 --> 0:39:06.320
<v Speaker 1>to describe this. I think, you know, microbiology, I believe

0:39:06.400 --> 0:39:12.440
<v Speaker 1>in microbiology. Microbiology is real germs are real, viruses, bacteria,

0:39:12.480 --> 0:39:16.040
<v Speaker 1>all that stuff that's all real. Now, I live in

0:39:16.120 --> 0:39:22.640
<v Speaker 1>a world surrounded by viruses and bacteria and any and

0:39:22.760 --> 0:39:25.200
<v Speaker 1>I'm one of them has invaded my nostrils in my

0:39:25.280 --> 0:39:27.440
<v Speaker 1>throat right now. And that's why I sound weird and

0:39:28.000 --> 0:39:29.759
<v Speaker 1>I'm having a little bit of a tough time today

0:39:29.880 --> 0:39:35.279
<v Speaker 1>speaking because I'm sick. But you know, the reality for

0:39:35.400 --> 0:39:39.200
<v Speaker 1>me is that I'm not going to sit around and

0:39:39.360 --> 0:39:45.200
<v Speaker 1>be super worried about possibly, you know, getting some terrible pathogen,

0:39:45.560 --> 0:39:49.200
<v Speaker 1>because while that could happen, I think it's unlikely enough

0:39:49.239 --> 0:39:51.399
<v Speaker 1>that I'm not going to worry about it now. When

0:39:51.480 --> 0:39:54.520
<v Speaker 1>you look at that most recent climate change report, the

0:39:54.719 --> 0:40:00.759
<v Speaker 1>worst case scenario, which is very unlikely, is so far off,

0:40:01.760 --> 0:40:06.120
<v Speaker 1>and I would argue so manageable that to spend any

0:40:06.200 --> 0:40:10.560
<v Speaker 1>time at all now worrying about it is similar to say,

0:40:10.640 --> 0:40:12.600
<v Speaker 1>walking around saying, oh my gosh, I need to wear

0:40:13.000 --> 0:40:16.719
<v Speaker 1>surgical gloves and a mask all the time because there

0:40:16.760 --> 0:40:18.799
<v Speaker 1>are germs everywhere and if I don't, I'm gonna die.

0:40:20.960 --> 0:40:23.600
<v Speaker 1>That it is true that if you don't walk around

0:40:23.640 --> 0:40:28.120
<v Speaker 1>with surgical mask and gloves constantly, you are at a

0:40:28.200 --> 0:40:31.160
<v Speaker 1>slightly greater risk of picking up an infection and you

0:40:31.239 --> 0:40:33.560
<v Speaker 1>could die from that infection. How many of you worry

0:40:33.560 --> 0:40:36.880
<v Speaker 1>about that? I'm guessing you know, one or two you're

0:40:36.920 --> 0:40:39.160
<v Speaker 1>right now are like taking off slowly, taking off your

0:40:39.200 --> 0:40:41.200
<v Speaker 1>gloves and mask. But I'm guessing most of you who

0:40:41.200 --> 0:40:43.319
<v Speaker 1>are saying, yeah, that's it's not something that a normal

0:40:43.400 --> 0:40:46.839
<v Speaker 1>person would do. The risk profile just isn't high enough.

0:40:46.920 --> 0:40:52.879
<v Speaker 1>It doesn't justify those precautionary measures. Well, what we see

0:40:52.960 --> 0:40:55.360
<v Speaker 1>now is that with climate change, they say do you

0:40:55.400 --> 0:40:57.200
<v Speaker 1>believe in climate change? It's like saying do you believe

0:40:57.239 --> 0:41:00.000
<v Speaker 1>in microbiology? Yeah, I believe that the climate has change.

0:41:00.160 --> 0:41:02.680
<v Speaker 1>Of course I do. I just don't worry about it.

0:41:02.760 --> 0:41:05.480
<v Speaker 1>And I don't think it's nearly as big of a problem,

0:41:05.600 --> 0:41:08.239
<v Speaker 1>if a problem at all, as these other people who

0:41:08.280 --> 0:41:11.200
<v Speaker 1>have bought into this idea. And it's an idea that

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<v Speaker 1>I would note gives a tremendous amount of latitude for

0:41:14.560 --> 0:41:18.239
<v Speaker 1>the redistribution of wealth via the government, for the redistribution

0:41:18.280 --> 0:41:20.759
<v Speaker 1>of wealth from the first world the developing world, from

0:41:20.840 --> 0:41:24.239
<v Speaker 1>you know, America to third world countries and Europe to

0:41:24.320 --> 0:41:27.200
<v Speaker 1>third world countries. You know, that's all. There's a lot

0:41:27.239 --> 0:41:29.920
<v Speaker 1>of other goodies that are thrown into this as well

0:41:30.000 --> 0:41:31.640
<v Speaker 1>as you know, you get to go to these for

0:41:31.719 --> 0:41:33.800
<v Speaker 1>some people, you get to go to these climate change conferences.

0:41:33.840 --> 0:41:36.760
<v Speaker 1>If you're Al Gore, you get to make ridiculous movies

0:41:36.800 --> 0:41:38.799
<v Speaker 1>that a lot of very credulous people go to see

0:41:39.320 --> 0:41:41.640
<v Speaker 1>and think are really important. And then they realize that

0:41:41.680 --> 0:41:44.279
<v Speaker 1>everything he said in the movie was wrong. But oh,

0:41:44.320 --> 0:41:48.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure he'll make another one. And this is why

0:41:48.960 --> 0:41:56.240
<v Speaker 1>this revolt by the Yellowjackets the Gila jan in France

0:41:57.680 --> 0:42:01.359
<v Speaker 1>is I think resonating with so many Americans, and that's

0:42:01.400 --> 0:42:03.760
<v Speaker 1>why they've backed off. I mean, the big news today

0:42:03.960 --> 0:42:08.200
<v Speaker 1>was that there, you know, the French government isn't going

0:42:08.239 --> 0:42:10.960
<v Speaker 1>to put these gas tax in place because the people

0:42:11.040 --> 0:42:14.200
<v Speaker 1>are so angry about it, and they realize that the

0:42:14.320 --> 0:42:17.719
<v Speaker 1>French people overall aren't supportive of this, and it's like, yeah,

0:42:18.160 --> 0:42:21.320
<v Speaker 1>and understand that this is just because it's a tax

0:42:21.480 --> 0:42:25.680
<v Speaker 1>on something that people feel and understand and know. And

0:42:25.880 --> 0:42:29.080
<v Speaker 1>the problem that, you know, from the climate changer's perspective,

0:42:29.840 --> 0:42:31.759
<v Speaker 1>the problem that they run into is that what they

0:42:32.200 --> 0:42:34.919
<v Speaker 1>need to do is what they usually do, is make

0:42:35.000 --> 0:42:38.960
<v Speaker 1>sure that the costs of combatant climate change are hidden,

0:42:39.480 --> 0:42:45.239
<v Speaker 1>make sure that the downside of these policies is so

0:42:45.640 --> 0:42:49.839
<v Speaker 1>spread out in the broader economy that individuals can't get

0:42:49.880 --> 0:42:52.440
<v Speaker 1>to that critical mass of anger that they will be

0:42:52.560 --> 0:42:55.359
<v Speaker 1>mobilized and then do something and mobilized to do something

0:42:55.440 --> 0:42:58.879
<v Speaker 1>about this. That's the mistake they made with this gas tax,

0:42:58.920 --> 0:43:00.520
<v Speaker 1>because people go to the gas, to go to a

0:43:00.560 --> 0:43:03.239
<v Speaker 1>gas tang where they're already paying over six dollars and

0:43:03.320 --> 0:43:05.359
<v Speaker 1>now they're gonna be paying you know, six dollars thirty

0:43:05.400 --> 0:43:07.400
<v Speaker 1>cents that equivalent, I know it would be in euros.

0:43:07.480 --> 0:43:10.960
<v Speaker 1>But they say, you know what, this is crazy, what

0:43:11.040 --> 0:43:14.640
<v Speaker 1>I'm paying this money for what? You know? I mean,

0:43:14.719 --> 0:43:17.920
<v Speaker 1>you know, turned down for what they probably ask themselves,

0:43:18.760 --> 0:43:20.759
<v Speaker 1>although maybe not I don't even know what turned down

0:43:20.840 --> 0:43:23.719
<v Speaker 1>for what means, but it's fun to say. So they're

0:43:24.000 --> 0:43:25.600
<v Speaker 1>at the you know, they're at the pump, and they

0:43:25.719 --> 0:43:27.680
<v Speaker 1>understand that people talk about in this country, you know,

0:43:27.719 --> 0:43:29.040
<v Speaker 1>the pain at the pump. I mean, how much do

0:43:29.080 --> 0:43:32.280
<v Speaker 1>you pay? You know, in this we're paying to something

0:43:32.800 --> 0:43:35.360
<v Speaker 1>a gallon for gas. Imagine of all of a sudden

0:43:35.400 --> 0:43:37.040
<v Speaker 1>to Phillip a tank of gas for your car and

0:43:37.160 --> 0:43:40.560
<v Speaker 1>you had to commute every day because a lot of

0:43:40.719 --> 0:43:42.840
<v Speaker 1>in these French cities the cities are not too expensive,

0:43:42.880 --> 0:43:44.560
<v Speaker 1>so people have to come from a pretty far away

0:43:46.200 --> 0:43:48.120
<v Speaker 1>and I'm so many I am very sympathetic this. I

0:43:48.120 --> 0:43:51.080
<v Speaker 1>hate commuting, I hate having to travel. Listens to where

0:43:51.120 --> 0:43:53.200
<v Speaker 1>it just strikes me, as you know, it's a huge

0:43:53.239 --> 0:43:57.320
<v Speaker 1>waste enough time, and it really costs you, you know,

0:43:57.400 --> 0:44:00.400
<v Speaker 1>a piece of your life you never get back. Imagine

0:44:00.440 --> 0:44:02.759
<v Speaker 1>you're driving an hour and a half each way and

0:44:02.920 --> 0:44:05.239
<v Speaker 1>you're paying three times as much. You'd be pretty upset too.

0:44:05.360 --> 0:44:09.879
<v Speaker 1>But once this is the achilles heel of climate change alarmism,

0:44:11.000 --> 0:44:15.560
<v Speaker 1>is when the policies are no longer theoretical and the

0:44:16.080 --> 0:44:19.080
<v Speaker 1>pain is made real. That's when all of a sudden

0:44:19.080 --> 0:44:20.520
<v Speaker 1>you have people that step back and say, hold on

0:44:20.600 --> 0:44:25.640
<v Speaker 1>a second, how certain are we about these different measurements.

0:44:26.239 --> 0:44:30.120
<v Speaker 1>How clear is it really that if we don't take

0:44:30.200 --> 0:44:36.160
<v Speaker 1>these drastic actions, terrible, awful, horrible things are going to

0:44:36.520 --> 0:44:40.520
<v Speaker 1>befall this country. Because if the answer is, you know,

0:44:40.719 --> 0:44:42.719
<v Speaker 1>one in a hundred, I think I'm going to ride

0:44:42.800 --> 0:44:45.960
<v Speaker 1>this out. I think I'm gonna let the system that

0:44:46.040 --> 0:44:49.319
<v Speaker 1>we have by and large in the developed world, capitalism,

0:44:50.040 --> 0:44:53.160
<v Speaker 1>private property rights, rule of law. I'm going to keep

0:44:53.280 --> 0:44:55.960
<v Speaker 1>riding with that, which has elevated more people out of

0:44:56.080 --> 0:45:00.800
<v Speaker 1>poverty in the last hundred years, then we're are lifted

0:45:00.880 --> 0:45:04.520
<v Speaker 1>out of poverty in all of human history before it.

0:45:04.640 --> 0:45:07.400
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna ride out this whole capital thing and not

0:45:07.560 --> 0:45:13.960
<v Speaker 1>allow the status hysteria of climate change lunacy to take over,

0:45:14.239 --> 0:45:16.040
<v Speaker 1>you know. I mean I also just on on a

0:45:16.440 --> 0:45:18.879
<v Speaker 1>person a personal level, whenever talked to my liberal friends

0:45:18.880 --> 0:45:20.920
<v Speaker 1>about this, and some of them, really they look at

0:45:20.960 --> 0:45:23.480
<v Speaker 1>me like they have discovered some zoo animal when I

0:45:23.560 --> 0:45:25.920
<v Speaker 1>tell them that, because they the ones who know me,

0:45:26.000 --> 0:45:28.600
<v Speaker 1>know that I somebody who reads a lot of books,

0:45:28.640 --> 0:45:30.400
<v Speaker 1>and I you know, I enjoy learning new things that

0:45:30.560 --> 0:45:33.480
<v Speaker 1>I try to be open minded about different ideas and arguments.

0:45:33.880 --> 0:45:37.520
<v Speaker 1>They for some reason they know I'm rock solid conservative

0:45:37.560 --> 0:45:39.680
<v Speaker 1>on all this other stuff. But I think they say,

0:45:40.040 --> 0:45:42.600
<v Speaker 1>blah blah, raise Catholic and you know, look at his parents,

0:45:42.680 --> 0:45:45.239
<v Speaker 1>they're conservative or you know they have some but on

0:45:45.360 --> 0:45:49.360
<v Speaker 1>climate change, they figure, well, you can't really not be

0:45:49.520 --> 0:45:51.960
<v Speaker 1>a believer in that whole thing. And when I look

0:45:52.000 --> 0:45:53.200
<v Speaker 1>at them and I say, not on my a not

0:45:53.280 --> 0:45:58.000
<v Speaker 1>a believer? Why why do you think I don't believe?

0:45:58.160 --> 0:46:00.720
<v Speaker 1>And when I'm always fascinated to buy is they assume

0:46:00.800 --> 0:46:03.000
<v Speaker 1>it's ignorance. And I sit there and say, I've read

0:46:03.040 --> 0:46:06.439
<v Speaker 1>the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports from the UN

0:46:06.480 --> 0:46:10.840
<v Speaker 1>stretching back for years. I've read I don't even know

0:46:11.000 --> 0:46:14.320
<v Speaker 1>how many hundreds, maybe not even going into the thousands

0:46:14.560 --> 0:46:19.000
<v Speaker 1>of different opinion articles, editorials, new stories on climate change.

0:46:19.600 --> 0:46:23.040
<v Speaker 1>Why is it that they think that I'm not worried

0:46:23.040 --> 0:46:26.799
<v Speaker 1>about this because i don't care about the world ending,

0:46:27.400 --> 0:46:30.399
<v Speaker 1>because I'm so in the pocket of big oil, which

0:46:30.400 --> 0:46:33.880
<v Speaker 1>has never given me a dollar that you know, this

0:46:34.239 --> 0:46:36.920
<v Speaker 1>is what It doesn't make any sense, does it. What

0:46:37.040 --> 0:46:40.640
<v Speaker 1>data realize is they have a religious belief. And this

0:46:40.760 --> 0:46:43.520
<v Speaker 1>always brings me back to because that's what climate change is,

0:46:43.560 --> 0:46:45.920
<v Speaker 1>the religious belief. And this brings me back to one

0:46:46.000 --> 0:46:49.279
<v Speaker 1>of the great great things we say here on the show,

0:46:49.360 --> 0:46:52.800
<v Speaker 1>which is that climate change is a religious belief for

0:46:52.920 --> 0:46:57.840
<v Speaker 1>people who think they are too smart for religion, and

0:46:58.040 --> 0:47:01.720
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0:47:58.480 --> 0:48:02.840
<v Speaker 1>slash buck. These violations of the ion f Treaty cannot

0:48:02.880 --> 0:48:05.360
<v Speaker 1>be viewed in isolation from the larger path of Russian

0:48:05.440 --> 0:48:09.240
<v Speaker 1>lawlessness on the world stage. The list of Russia's infamous

0:48:09.280 --> 0:48:18.000
<v Speaker 1>acts is long. Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, election, Medai, scir Paul,

0:48:18.680 --> 0:48:22.560
<v Speaker 1>and now the kirch Strake, to name just a few.

0:48:24.040 --> 0:48:26.560
<v Speaker 1>In a light of these facts, the United States today

0:48:26.640 --> 0:48:28.880
<v Speaker 1>declares it has found Russia in material breach of the

0:48:28.920 --> 0:48:32.520
<v Speaker 1>treaty and we'll suspend our obligations as a remedy effective

0:48:32.560 --> 0:48:37.200
<v Speaker 1>in sixty days unless Russia returns to full and verifiable compliance.

0:48:39.080 --> 0:48:41.960
<v Speaker 1>Drawn a line in the sands here, Secretary of State

0:48:42.040 --> 0:48:46.560
<v Speaker 1>Pompeio saying that the US within sixty days better see

0:48:47.239 --> 0:48:51.000
<v Speaker 1>Russia start to do what it says it will do

0:48:51.160 --> 0:48:54.600
<v Speaker 1>under a treaty called the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

0:48:54.680 --> 0:49:00.200
<v Speaker 1>ion F treaty. Pompeio saying, look, you guys are coming

0:49:00.239 --> 0:49:03.040
<v Speaker 1>too compliance or we're stepping out of this treaty, which

0:49:03.160 --> 0:49:06.200
<v Speaker 1>means that we can start developing things that we know

0:49:06.320 --> 0:49:11.200
<v Speaker 1>said we wouldn't, and it means that you know there's

0:49:11.239 --> 0:49:14.640
<v Speaker 1>going to be consequences for Russian perceptions of its own security.

0:49:14.719 --> 0:49:19.120
<v Speaker 1>As a result of this, Russia has developed multiple battalions

0:49:19.400 --> 0:49:24.600
<v Speaker 1>of SSC eight missiles, according to Pompeo, which falls out,

0:49:24.680 --> 0:49:27.560
<v Speaker 1>which puts them in violation of this treaty that goes

0:49:27.600 --> 0:49:30.120
<v Speaker 1>back to the Cold War, and it means that it's

0:49:30.560 --> 0:49:32.600
<v Speaker 1>these are a direct menace to Europe and this is

0:49:32.600 --> 0:49:36.239
<v Speaker 1>a way of directly threatening NATO and NATO allies, that

0:49:36.840 --> 0:49:40.080
<v Speaker 1>our NATO allies in Europe, and you know, this is

0:49:40.920 --> 0:49:43.920
<v Speaker 1>the undermines trust between US and the Russians such as

0:49:44.000 --> 0:49:45.480
<v Speaker 1>it is. I mean, not that we trust the Russians

0:49:45.520 --> 0:49:47.359
<v Speaker 1>all that much, but you know, there's a very it's

0:49:47.400 --> 0:49:50.280
<v Speaker 1>a bold statement from Pompeo today. It's a clear statement,

0:49:50.400 --> 0:49:53.920
<v Speaker 1>and I think everybody knows, unlike with the Obama administration,

0:49:54.719 --> 0:49:57.760
<v Speaker 1>when this administration, when Secretary is State Pompeo, when President

0:49:57.800 --> 0:50:01.160
<v Speaker 1>Trump draws a red line, guess what that red line's

0:50:01.200 --> 0:50:04.440
<v Speaker 1>going to be enforced. There's not going to be some

0:50:04.719 --> 0:50:07.720
<v Speaker 1>erasing of it. They're not going to say, oh, just kidding,

0:50:07.880 --> 0:50:12.759
<v Speaker 1>and you know no, They're going to make sure that

0:50:12.880 --> 0:50:15.759
<v Speaker 1>the Russians fall into compliance or suffer the consequences. And

0:50:15.840 --> 0:50:18.640
<v Speaker 1>then it just also brings me to you know what,

0:50:18.840 --> 0:50:22.080
<v Speaker 1>one of the storylines that's out there that just annoys

0:50:22.200 --> 0:50:25.360
<v Speaker 1>me to no end, and that is that Trump is

0:50:25.520 --> 0:50:30.799
<v Speaker 1>soft on Russia. Trump maybe has a certain personal affinity

0:50:31.000 --> 0:50:34.480
<v Speaker 1>for the character that's in his head of who Putin is.

0:50:35.120 --> 0:50:40.080
<v Speaker 1>But the Trump administration's policies matter a whole lot more.

0:50:40.200 --> 0:50:43.320
<v Speaker 1>And the Trump administration on when it comes to policy

0:50:44.080 --> 0:50:47.880
<v Speaker 1>is strong on Russia more so than his predecessor was

0:50:48.040 --> 0:50:52.279
<v Speaker 1>not even close. Really, Obama's whole hot mic moment with

0:50:52.640 --> 0:50:55.520
<v Speaker 1>Medvedev where you know, I will I'll have more flexibility

0:50:55.520 --> 0:50:58.160
<v Speaker 1>after my election. You know, Obama was always trying to

0:50:58.239 --> 0:51:03.040
<v Speaker 1>appease everybody, including Russians. Obama was the appeaser in chief.

0:51:03.719 --> 0:51:05.719
<v Speaker 1>And now you're always hearing about how Trump is so

0:51:05.960 --> 0:51:09.680
<v Speaker 1>in bed with the Russians. Well, here's what Trump's secretary

0:51:09.719 --> 0:51:14.320
<v Speaker 1>of State says about Russia on the world stage in

0:51:14.440 --> 0:51:18.239
<v Speaker 1>front of countless members of the international press. Play clip two.

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<v Speaker 1>Russia has an embraced Western values of freedom and international cooperation. Rather,

0:51:22.960 --> 0:51:26.600
<v Speaker 1>it has suppressed opposition voices and invaded the sovereign nations

0:51:26.640 --> 0:51:31.480
<v Speaker 1>of Georgia and of Ukraine. Moscow is also deployed a

0:51:31.560 --> 0:51:34.799
<v Speaker 1>military grade nerve age and on foreign soil right here

0:51:35.080 --> 0:51:38.000
<v Speaker 1>in Europe, in violation the Chemical Weapons Convention to which

0:51:38.080 --> 0:51:40.759
<v Speaker 1>it is a party. Russia has violated the Intermediate Range

0:51:40.840 --> 0:51:46.440
<v Speaker 1>Nuclear Forces Treaty for many years. The list goes on,

0:51:47.800 --> 0:51:49.720
<v Speaker 1>we have to account for the world order of today

0:51:49.840 --> 0:51:54.160
<v Speaker 1>in order to chart the way forward. Russia has not

0:51:54.440 --> 0:51:58.600
<v Speaker 1>embraced rest and values, he says, suppress his opposition voices

0:51:58.719 --> 0:52:03.640
<v Speaker 1>invade sovereign nation. I mean, he is calling Russia out

0:52:04.560 --> 0:52:09.439
<v Speaker 1>in clear and in unambiguous terms. And oh, by the way,

0:52:10.000 --> 0:52:13.759
<v Speaker 1>we've also sent more lethal assistance than the Obama administration

0:52:13.840 --> 0:52:18.160
<v Speaker 1>did to Ukraine, which is the single biggest military concern

0:52:18.320 --> 0:52:22.240
<v Speaker 1>right now for the Russian government. We've sent naval trainers,

0:52:22.320 --> 0:52:26.920
<v Speaker 1>We've sent people to Ukraine to assist in all kinds

0:52:27.000 --> 0:52:30.239
<v Speaker 1>of military operations and you know, to provide them with

0:52:30.920 --> 0:52:33.319
<v Speaker 1>the training and the know how so that they can

0:52:33.480 --> 0:52:36.040
<v Speaker 1>really fight back effectively against the Russians. Right now, the

0:52:36.080 --> 0:52:39.160
<v Speaker 1>big problems that the Ukrainians have, and you see this

0:52:39.239 --> 0:52:41.600
<v Speaker 1>in the kurt Straight crisis, is that the Russians have

0:52:41.719 --> 0:52:46.600
<v Speaker 1>them completely outmatched when it comes to their air force

0:52:46.719 --> 0:52:48.560
<v Speaker 1>at navy. I mean, the Russian navy and air force

0:52:48.719 --> 0:52:51.920
<v Speaker 1>just dwarf what the Ukrainians can put out there. Remember,

0:52:51.960 --> 0:52:54.520
<v Speaker 1>I mean for the Ukrainians, there's something very bitter sweet

0:52:55.080 --> 0:52:59.080
<v Speaker 1>about this whole thing. And I'm sorry, not bittersweet, bitter,

0:53:00.120 --> 0:53:02.800
<v Speaker 1>no sweetens very bitter about this whole thing because you know,

0:53:02.920 --> 0:53:06.960
<v Speaker 1>they had at one point a very large nuclear arsenal

0:53:07.040 --> 0:53:10.200
<v Speaker 1>after the fall of the Soviet Union, and they as

0:53:10.320 --> 0:53:15.080
<v Speaker 1>part of the agreement that they had with the with

0:53:15.200 --> 0:53:19.600
<v Speaker 1>the Budapest Memorandum where we agreed the Budapest Memorandum on

0:53:19.760 --> 0:53:23.520
<v Speaker 1>Security assistants. We agreed along with the UK and yes, Russia,

0:53:24.440 --> 0:53:29.120
<v Speaker 1>to protect their national integrity, their sovereignty if they gave

0:53:29.200 --> 0:53:32.400
<v Speaker 1>up their nuclear weapons. Russia gave up their nukes and

0:53:32.760 --> 0:53:35.160
<v Speaker 1>guess what, I'm sorry, Ukraine gave up their nukes and

0:53:35.200 --> 0:53:39.680
<v Speaker 1>guess what now it's being picked apart by the Russians.

0:53:41.000 --> 0:53:42.880
<v Speaker 1>We are not really holding up our end of the

0:53:42.880 --> 0:53:44.719
<v Speaker 1>deal with the Budapest memory of him. Now, I don't

0:53:44.760 --> 0:53:47.080
<v Speaker 1>think we should go to war with the Russia over Ukraine, honestly,

0:53:47.239 --> 0:53:50.480
<v Speaker 1>under any circumstances, So start with that, but we certainly

0:53:50.520 --> 0:53:53.719
<v Speaker 1>can give them assistance and provide them with help to

0:53:53.800 --> 0:53:56.680
<v Speaker 1>make it harder for Russia to just piece by peace,

0:53:56.760 --> 0:53:59.239
<v Speaker 1>pull the country apart and consume it, which is really

0:53:59.320 --> 0:54:01.960
<v Speaker 1>what the Russian plan is here. So you know, I

0:54:02.239 --> 0:54:05.640
<v Speaker 1>just get frustrated with this because we keep hearing about

0:54:05.719 --> 0:54:07.920
<v Speaker 1>how Trump and Putin, Trump and Putin, I mean, this

0:54:08.040 --> 0:54:11.120
<v Speaker 1>has become an obsessional left and I just I just

0:54:11.239 --> 0:54:13.880
<v Speaker 1>don't think it's I just don't think it's reflective of reality.

0:54:14.520 --> 0:54:17.600
<v Speaker 1>I think it's something that liberals like to say. They

0:54:17.680 --> 0:54:20.480
<v Speaker 1>think they sound smart when they say it. They get

0:54:20.520 --> 0:54:23.440
<v Speaker 1>a kick out of, you know, pushing this issue in

0:54:23.560 --> 0:54:26.120
<v Speaker 1>front of you know, in conservative faces all the time.

0:54:26.200 --> 0:54:28.680
<v Speaker 1>But when you look at policy and you look at

0:54:28.760 --> 0:54:33.839
<v Speaker 1>what is really moving the needle, you know, the Trump administration,

0:54:33.960 --> 0:54:38.640
<v Speaker 1>it's just a more muscular administration in every sense. It's

0:54:38.680 --> 0:54:42.200
<v Speaker 1>just less willing to be deferential. It's less willing to

0:54:42.480 --> 0:54:47.239
<v Speaker 1>go along to get along. And that that's what, at

0:54:47.320 --> 0:54:51.160
<v Speaker 1>least certainly what I think America should be. You know,

0:54:51.560 --> 0:54:54.719
<v Speaker 1>we should lead you A leadership doesn't mean what's the consensus.

0:54:54.800 --> 0:54:58.160
<v Speaker 1>I'll do that on the world stage or on any

0:54:58.239 --> 0:55:01.719
<v Speaker 1>stage for that matter. This is the very definition of

0:55:01.760 --> 0:55:05.000
<v Speaker 1>the deep state. The deep state is that the intelligence

0:55:05.040 --> 0:55:09.719
<v Speaker 1>agencies do things, conclude things, make conclusions, but then the

0:55:09.840 --> 0:55:13.560
<v Speaker 1>elected officials are prevented from knowing about this. So if

0:55:13.600 --> 0:55:15.480
<v Speaker 1>we aren't told about this, if I'm not allowed to

0:55:15.600 --> 0:55:18.680
<v Speaker 1>know about these conclusions, then I can't have oversight. And

0:55:18.800 --> 0:55:21.359
<v Speaker 1>so then the state grows. The intelligence the deep state

0:55:21.400 --> 0:55:23.879
<v Speaker 1>grows and has more and more power. So I've read

0:55:23.920 --> 0:55:26.600
<v Speaker 1>in the media that the CIA has said with high

0:55:26.640 --> 0:55:30.000
<v Speaker 1>competence that the Crown Prince was involved with killing Kashogi.

0:55:30.360 --> 0:55:33.160
<v Speaker 1>I have not seen that intelligence nor I've even seen

0:55:33.239 --> 0:55:37.120
<v Speaker 1>the conclusions. And today there's yet another briefing and I'm

0:55:37.120 --> 0:55:39.839
<v Speaker 1>being excluded from that. So really, this is the deep

0:55:39.920 --> 0:55:42.600
<v Speaker 1>state at work that your representatives don't know what is

0:55:42.680 --> 0:55:45.600
<v Speaker 1>going on in the intelligence state. So that was last

0:55:45.640 --> 0:55:49.080
<v Speaker 1>week Senator round Paul obviously very upset about the fact

0:55:49.160 --> 0:55:51.520
<v Speaker 1>that he didn't feel like he was getting full access

0:55:51.640 --> 0:55:59.560
<v Speaker 1>to the intelligence, the information involving because involving Nbas Moham

0:55:59.600 --> 0:56:04.960
<v Speaker 1>had been almond in the Kashogi murder. And so sure enough,

0:56:05.320 --> 0:56:10.560
<v Speaker 1>even though we remember we heard from Madison Pompeo last

0:56:10.640 --> 0:56:12.839
<v Speaker 1>week on this when they saw everything, and I think

0:56:12.880 --> 0:56:14.919
<v Speaker 1>it's so funny. I think a lot of journalists don't

0:56:14.920 --> 0:56:18.279
<v Speaker 1>realize that the Secretary of Defense, if he wants to

0:56:18.320 --> 0:56:21.400
<v Speaker 1>see something, the CIA shows it to him. There's no

0:56:22.000 --> 0:56:26.480
<v Speaker 1>there's no oh sorry, sorry, guy who runs the US military,

0:56:26.680 --> 0:56:30.360
<v Speaker 1>person in charge of the Pentagon. That's too sensitive for you.

0:56:30.600 --> 0:56:32.680
<v Speaker 1>That that does not exist. That is not a thing.

0:56:34.000 --> 0:56:37.880
<v Speaker 1>And true also of the Secretary of State. Um but

0:56:39.080 --> 0:56:43.360
<v Speaker 1>Madison Pompeo sect deaf and sec state. They had this

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<v Speaker 1>to say about this just this as a refresher before

0:56:45.600 --> 0:56:46.880
<v Speaker 1>we get into the latest to day on This is

0:56:46.920 --> 0:56:49.600
<v Speaker 1>what Maddison and Pompeo said last week. Play for we

0:56:49.840 --> 0:56:55.520
<v Speaker 1>have no smoking gun that the Crown Prince was involved,

0:56:55.640 --> 0:57:00.440
<v Speaker 1>not the Intelligent Community or anyone Else's no smoke gun.

0:57:00.960 --> 0:57:05.640
<v Speaker 1>There is no direct reporting connecting Prince to the Order

0:57:05.719 --> 0:57:10.440
<v Speaker 1>and murders offer. That's all I can say. No direct

0:57:10.520 --> 0:57:15.680
<v Speaker 1>information connecting him to Kashogi's murder. That's what they said. Today.

0:57:15.760 --> 0:57:18.640
<v Speaker 1>Lindsey Graham comes out of briefing with Gina Haspell, the

0:57:18.800 --> 0:57:23.560
<v Speaker 1>CIA director, who looks like the world's most unassuming librarian.

0:57:24.040 --> 0:57:25.520
<v Speaker 1>For those of you who for those of you who

0:57:25.520 --> 0:57:27.160
<v Speaker 1>don't understand, this is when people say me, look, you

0:57:27.200 --> 0:57:29.200
<v Speaker 1>were in the CIA. You don't look like you're in

0:57:29.240 --> 0:57:32.960
<v Speaker 1>the CIA. I'm like, why, because I don't have, you know,

0:57:33.320 --> 0:57:36.880
<v Speaker 1>a pocket protector and wander the hallways muttering to myself

0:57:37.360 --> 0:57:40.160
<v Speaker 1>in a in an ill fitted button up sweater, because

0:57:40.280 --> 0:57:42.960
<v Speaker 1>that's that's what you generally, that's what you generally get

0:57:43.000 --> 0:57:46.120
<v Speaker 1>at the CIA. Think mad Professor, not James Bond, and

0:57:46.200 --> 0:57:49.680
<v Speaker 1>you'll be much closer to the archetype of what of

0:57:49.760 --> 0:57:53.760
<v Speaker 1>what a CIA? You know bureaucrat is like anyway. Um,

0:57:54.360 --> 0:57:57.160
<v Speaker 1>but Lindsey Graham came out of the Haspell briefing today

0:57:57.200 --> 0:58:00.120
<v Speaker 1>and here's And I knew Lindsay was gonna say this

0:58:00.240 --> 0:58:04.520
<v Speaker 1>because you know, he's he's really strutting his stuff, you know,

0:58:05.080 --> 0:58:08.080
<v Speaker 1>letting his feathers kind of flutter or I don't know

0:58:08.080 --> 0:58:09.640
<v Speaker 1>if that's really a thing. You know what I'm saying,

0:58:09.720 --> 0:58:11.840
<v Speaker 1>Lindsay Graham, He's walking around with his chest pumped up

0:58:11.920 --> 0:58:15.040
<v Speaker 1>after his puffed out gosh, I am, My metaphors are

0:58:15.160 --> 0:58:19.160
<v Speaker 1>getting mixed. I'm terrible of this today. After yes, he

0:58:19.320 --> 0:58:22.800
<v Speaker 1>saved the Kavanaugh hearing in parts, so yes, I and

0:58:22.960 --> 0:58:25.640
<v Speaker 1>I kind of will forever love Lindsay for that. But

0:58:26.160 --> 0:58:28.240
<v Speaker 1>I think he's pushing this koshogi thing a little bit

0:58:28.280 --> 0:58:31.400
<v Speaker 1>too far. Play five. I went into the briefing believing

0:58:31.440 --> 0:58:35.480
<v Speaker 1>it was virtually impossible for an operation like this to

0:58:35.560 --> 0:58:40.720
<v Speaker 1>be carried out without the Crown Prince's knowledge. I left

0:58:40.800 --> 0:58:44.880
<v Speaker 1>the briefing with high confidence that my initial assessment of

0:58:44.960 --> 0:58:50.800
<v Speaker 1>the situation is correct. Here's my takeaway that Saudi Arabia's

0:58:50.800 --> 0:58:56.320
<v Speaker 1>a strategic ally and the relationship is worth saving, but

0:58:56.520 --> 0:59:00.720
<v Speaker 1>not at all costs. We'll do more damage star standing

0:59:00.760 --> 0:59:06.000
<v Speaker 1>in the world and our national security by ignoring MBS

0:59:06.360 --> 0:59:12.120
<v Speaker 1>than dealing with him. MBS, the Crown Prince is a

0:59:12.240 --> 0:59:15.920
<v Speaker 1>wrecking ball. I think he's complicit in the murder of

0:59:15.960 --> 0:59:21.840
<v Speaker 1>mister Katshogi to the highest level possible. You know, I

0:59:22.000 --> 0:59:24.120
<v Speaker 1>don't want to overly parse that was from today. I

0:59:24.160 --> 0:59:28.080
<v Speaker 1>don't want to overly pars Lindsay's words. But complicit or

0:59:28.760 --> 0:59:32.640
<v Speaker 1>responsible for you know, complicit means you know, you're you,

0:59:33.200 --> 0:59:35.880
<v Speaker 1>you bear some responsibility. Did he give the order or not?

0:59:37.160 --> 0:59:40.080
<v Speaker 1>You know, did he order the cred so to speak,

0:59:40.120 --> 0:59:43.880
<v Speaker 1>in this case the assassination, And the answer is that

0:59:44.080 --> 0:59:46.400
<v Speaker 1>better be one hundred percent yes or else. What are

0:59:46.400 --> 0:59:49.640
<v Speaker 1>we even really talking about? But let's just assume for

0:59:49.680 --> 0:59:52.240
<v Speaker 1>a second, and you know, I tire of the Koshogi

0:59:52.320 --> 0:59:55.800
<v Speaker 1>story just because one I know that if it ultimately

0:59:55.880 --> 0:59:57.920
<v Speaker 1>doesn't go anywhere. And this falls into that realm of

0:59:58.000 --> 1:00:00.840
<v Speaker 1>foreign policy where they're all a lot of people in

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<v Speaker 1>the establishment media and in politics who love to talk

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<v Speaker 1>about foreign policy because that it's you know, it sounds

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<v Speaker 1>interesting and they think they sound smart when they're doing it.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's all pretty irrelevant. I mean, it doesn't nothing's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna change. They don't have any ideas or solutions or

1:00:17.520 --> 1:00:19.800
<v Speaker 1>any bold vision for anything. It's just kind of more

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<v Speaker 1>the same. But you get the sense that a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of these senators are excited to share with everybody that

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<v Speaker 1>now they can name like the main ethnic groups in X,

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<v Speaker 1>y or Z country, and they want to kind of

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<v Speaker 1>strut their stuff, you know. Lindsey Graham on the Kashogi situation,

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<v Speaker 1>what are we really gonna do? We're gonna not deal

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<v Speaker 1>with the leader of Saudi Arabia. That's not an option

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<v Speaker 1>if we're gonna deal with Saudi Arabia, right? I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>would would we as a as a sovereign nation, would

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<v Speaker 1>we continue a relationship with a country that said that

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<v Speaker 1>they would not meet with President Trump, that their their

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<v Speaker 1>president will no longer take phone calls from Trump, will

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<v Speaker 1>no longer have any relationship with the President United States.

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<v Speaker 1>I think the answer that's I mean, we've never really

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<v Speaker 1>come up again into that before, but I think the

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<v Speaker 1>answer is no. And why also should we abandon all

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<v Speaker 1>US foreign policy interests in Saudi Arabia because of this

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<v Speaker 1>one incident? Is? What is the acceptable punishment? And how

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<v Speaker 1>do we get people to stop harping on this issue.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, there have been Magnitsky sanctions put in place.

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<v Speaker 1>The administration has given a statement about this, They've said

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<v Speaker 1>it's completely unacceptable. What has to be done and I

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<v Speaker 1>really mean this. What has to be done for this

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<v Speaker 1>to no longer be something that we hear about day

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<v Speaker 1>in and day out. Now, what has to happen for

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<v Speaker 1>the Libs to stop acting like there's nothing more important

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<v Speaker 1>for the country to focus on than the murder of

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<v Speaker 1>Jamalka showed what do we what do we have to do?

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<v Speaker 1>And I mean that as an open question. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what they think. The answer is, we're going to

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<v Speaker 1>sanction the leader of Saudi Arabia. We're going to seize

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<v Speaker 1>his assets. By the way, he's going to claim that

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<v Speaker 1>he's innocent, that he's been framed, that this isn't you know,

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<v Speaker 1>there's really no We have no jurisdiction here, there's no

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<v Speaker 1>criminal proceeding to speak of. There's nothing that we can do.

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<v Speaker 1>And he gets no problem. Now, I mean, I know

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<v Speaker 1>people don't think of this way. He gets no due process.

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<v Speaker 1>We're talking about intelligence collection. The reason that intelligence collection

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<v Speaker 1>is not a part of you know, your standard when

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<v Speaker 1>you're dealing with US citizens, for example, it's not a

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<v Speaker 1>part of your of your standard toolkit for law enforcement

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<v Speaker 1>is that intelligence collection. A lot of it is what

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<v Speaker 1>you'd call hearsay in court. A lot of it is

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<v Speaker 1>you know, third parties that think they heard this thing

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<v Speaker 1>from this guy and you just want the information or

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<v Speaker 1>you're making assessments, but it's not all vetted, it's not

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<v Speaker 1>all clear. And I just also have to take a

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<v Speaker 1>moment to remind everyone that the same libs who just

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<v Speaker 1>hammered hammered the intelligence community and the CIA in particular

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<v Speaker 1>for the intelligence leading up to the Iraq War, and

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<v Speaker 1>you know, it was one of the biggest blunders in history,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, terrible. The cias blood understands all that.

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<v Speaker 1>They now believe that that that we can turn to

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<v Speaker 1>CIA and they'll tell us whether somebody is responsible for

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<v Speaker 1>giving the order for a murder in a foreign country

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<v Speaker 1>with one hundred percent certainty. That just seems like a

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<v Speaker 1>standard that has been changed to fit the needs of

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<v Speaker 1>the moment. That doesn't seem like it's based in the

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<v Speaker 1>objective reality. To me, that doesn't seem like it's something

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<v Speaker 1>that you know, we should all just accept. On its face.

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<v Speaker 1>So and I don't think that the Koshogi, the Koshogi

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<v Speaker 1>murder is enough for America to turn its back on

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<v Speaker 1>Saudi Arabia. I just I as a country. Sure there

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<v Speaker 1>are individuals was we've taken action against them, but it's

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<v Speaker 1>just not enough. And you know, it's a cold, cruel

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<v Speaker 1>world that we live in. But I remember we we

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<v Speaker 1>look at this situation from the perspective of not just

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<v Speaker 1>what's happening right now. We might have to deal with

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<v Speaker 1>this guy MBS for the next forty years. So a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of whining about this, no solutions. That tells you

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<v Speaker 1>a lot who wants to take a little trip to

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<v Speaker 1>crazytown with me right now? In this case Seattle and

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<v Speaker 1>the latest the latest nonsense from an Antifa courtesy of

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<v Speaker 1>our friend Andy no over at Quillette. We played that

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<v Speaker 1>audio for you earlier the week. We played yesterday for you.

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<v Speaker 1>That guy who's eventually saying that you know death is

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<v Speaker 1>coming for you, and you know people are willing to

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<v Speaker 1>die for this cause. Guy's clearly clearly a loon. Now

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<v Speaker 1>that doesn't mean that he's not a problem, right, Loons

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<v Speaker 1>can be very very dangerous. It just means I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>saying that his mentality is representative of all of the

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<v Speaker 1>hard line left. But I'm not saying it's not either.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, you know, he's because because the radicals on

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<v Speaker 1>the left are increasingly I think, you know, embolden is

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<v Speaker 1>the word they always used for Trump and white nationals. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>Trump has embolden white national And I'm saying by calling

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<v Speaker 1>them losers and by being a billionaire who's married to

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<v Speaker 1>an immigrant from Eastern Europe, what do you mean he's

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<v Speaker 1>emboldening white nationals. I mean, this is just this is

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<v Speaker 1>just something that people say because they think it sounds good.

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<v Speaker 1>But in the case of the far left, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you'll you have important voices in the Democratic Party who

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<v Speaker 1>will make excuses for these real hardline, hardcore activists slash rioters,

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<v Speaker 1>And as you know, riots get results, as we saw

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<v Speaker 1>in France. You know, riots gonna be a very powerful tool.

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<v Speaker 1>But this is what I think really shocks people when

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<v Speaker 1>they dig a little deeper into what it's like out

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<v Speaker 1>in and some of these West Coast cities like Portland

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<v Speaker 1>and Seattle and Oakland, where you have official complicity with

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<v Speaker 1>some of these riots, or at least a kind of

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<v Speaker 1>apathy slash excuse making for the worst actors on the left.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, this is why you had Occupy Ice in

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<v Speaker 1>Portland for a while, where people were harassing an ICE

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<v Speaker 1>office there. They gathered outside of it. They have this

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<v Speaker 1>encampment and you know they could have cleared it, but

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<v Speaker 1>you know, they don't want to clear it. They could

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<v Speaker 1>have taken action, but they don't want to. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>it wouldn't have these protesters who start getting rowdy and

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<v Speaker 1>violent and breaking laws and the police don't swoop in.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, you'll have some you know, the mayor of

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<v Speaker 1>Portland for example, and another prominent leftists in local politics,

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<v Speaker 1>depending on the city we're talking about, they'll say, yeah, well,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, we want to give them. Member in Baltimore

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<v Speaker 1>wanted to give them space to destroy. That's a perfect example,

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<v Speaker 1>you know that Black Lives matter whatever that riot, I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>you can't even really call it a protest. They're burning

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<v Speaker 1>things down, and they said it was because they wanted

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<v Speaker 1>to give those those protesters space to destroy. That was

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<v Speaker 1>the either the police chief of the mayor of Baltimore,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't remember which one it was, but Andy who

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<v Speaker 1>was gathered or rather was around a gathering of a

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and fifty self describe anti fascist protesters in downtown Seattle,

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<v Speaker 1>UM and there was a conservative group that says it

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<v Speaker 1>is a constitutionalist group. There. The anti VA has the

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<v Speaker 1>has the flag of the Soviet Union flying first of all,

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<v Speaker 1>so start with that. I mean, these people are celebrating

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<v Speaker 1>a a genocidal regime. I don't even think they realize

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<v Speaker 1>that it's a genocidal regime because they're they're ignorant of history,

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<v Speaker 1>and they're generally not very smart. But Andy had an

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<v Speaker 1>exchange with a police officer, a police officer that I

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<v Speaker 1>thought was really interesting and is indicative of a much

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<v Speaker 1>more widespread problem. Play fifteen. The boy you're inciting, we're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna dix some attinute to move you from Mary. Understand that,

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<v Speaker 1>how am, because we're ending up in confrontation here, and

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<v Speaker 1>it becomes this can become a public safety issue for

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<v Speaker 1>it's difficult for us to advantage the other people potentially

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<v Speaker 1>getting heart. Okay, okay, Now, if you want to protest,

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<v Speaker 1>you have the absolutely right expersation. I'm not protestation. You

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<v Speaker 1>have right to be where you want to beat a

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<v Speaker 1>cl extent as well. But if we're creating if we're

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<v Speaker 1>exciting a potential. Okay, just let me know when you

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<v Speaker 1>think that I'm doing that in how I can de escalate. Okay.

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<v Speaker 1>So look, I know the cops here have a tough job.

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<v Speaker 1>I get it, okay, And they really just want everybody

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<v Speaker 1>to go home with all their teeth in place and

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<v Speaker 1>and all the red I get that too. But I

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<v Speaker 1>also think that what you see here is is a

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<v Speaker 1>more commonplace issue on on the left or when when

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<v Speaker 1>you're dealing with the left, and that is that because

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<v Speaker 1>they're willing to escalate to violence, it becomes your problem

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<v Speaker 1>and your rights are truncated. Right. You see this on

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<v Speaker 1>the college campuses, the presence of a conservative speaker is

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<v Speaker 1>a safety issue, and that's why conservatives are not allowed

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<v Speaker 1>on the campus. It's not that it's not that they're

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<v Speaker 1>shutting down speech. It's a safety issue, they will say.

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<v Speaker 1>And actually the Young America's Foundation, I think just one

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<v Speaker 1>a lawsuit against Berkeley very much related to this, where

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<v Speaker 1>you know, Berkeley and then these other schools will say,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, we can't have conservatives come and speak because

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<v Speaker 1>the security costs are too high, you know, because it's

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<v Speaker 1>a safety issue. Well I'm sorry, but that doesn't fly.

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<v Speaker 1>You're not allowed to eliminate somebody's First Amendment rights because

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<v Speaker 1>other people, you know, you can't give them a heckler

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<v Speaker 1>or in this case, a rioter's veto because other people

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<v Speaker 1>don't want them to be speaking. And that's what this

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<v Speaker 1>police officer wasn't It was just dancing around the edge

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<v Speaker 1>of doing here. And he's just there with a camera.

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<v Speaker 1>He's just just Antifa knows him. They've now and they've

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<v Speaker 1>been threatening him, but he gets death threats. I mean,

1:09:53.320 --> 1:09:58.200
<v Speaker 1>Antifa is aware that he is exposing their idiocy on

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<v Speaker 1>a regular basis, and so whenever they see him, they

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<v Speaker 1>get very you know, very aggravated and vengeful and everything else.

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<v Speaker 1>But for a cop to come up to you and

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<v Speaker 1>say that they're going to remove you, which you know,

1:10:12.400 --> 1:10:14.160
<v Speaker 1>sounds a lot like, you know, come with us, or

1:10:14.200 --> 1:10:16.880
<v Speaker 1>else you're going to get arrested because there's a there's

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<v Speaker 1>a safety threat here from the people around you who

1:10:20.040 --> 1:10:21.759
<v Speaker 1>are going to attack you. I mean, this is almost

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<v Speaker 1>it's almost like they were going to arrest Andy for

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<v Speaker 1>his own safety, you know, that was that was the head.

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<v Speaker 1>Look at extreme circumstances. I guess he could come up

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<v Speaker 1>with it sounds like something out of a movie. You

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<v Speaker 1>can come up with a situation though where that's that's

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<v Speaker 1>probably the best move in terms of pure safety. But

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<v Speaker 1>you know, you you we have to be on guard

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<v Speaker 1>for this because the olynsky I left is willing to

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<v Speaker 1>raise the temperature and raise the stakes to get the

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<v Speaker 1>outcome that they want, which is shutting down speech, not

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<v Speaker 1>allowing people to expose the Left for what it really is.

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<v Speaker 1>And if all they have to do is threatened violence,

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<v Speaker 1>and then they have authorities, law enforcement politicians who say, well,

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<v Speaker 1>hold on, you know, we can't allow we can't allow

1:11:07.280 --> 1:11:10.680
<v Speaker 1>there to be this this, you know, this speech that

1:11:10.880 --> 1:11:15.200
<v Speaker 1>incites the other side so much not that incites against

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<v Speaker 1>the other side, but that the other side takes as

1:11:18.280 --> 1:11:22.760
<v Speaker 1>incitement for its own violence against the speaker. Then we

1:11:22.880 --> 1:11:25.120
<v Speaker 1>really don't have much of a First Amendment anymore. Then

1:11:25.120 --> 1:11:27.600
<v Speaker 1>we don't really have the protections that we think we do.

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<v Speaker 1>So I just would know that you see this happening.

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<v Speaker 1>It happens on campuses, that happens to some of these

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<v Speaker 1>protests where the craziest, loudest, angriest voices are just able

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<v Speaker 1>to create a disturbance or or create a perception that

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<v Speaker 1>there's imminent violence, and then that perception alone is enough

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<v Speaker 1>for the person against whom the violence would be committed

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<v Speaker 1>to be in some way punished or have his rights

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<v Speaker 1>or her rights violated. So this is like the Left

1:12:00.960 --> 1:12:02.680
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<v Speaker 1>They're gonna cut their tariffs, They're gonna lawer their non

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<v Speaker 1>tariff barriers. Okay, and that opens the door for American exporters,

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<v Speaker 1>all our farmers, all our manufacturers, even our automobile producers

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<v Speaker 1>that exports to China. If you'll give us open markets,

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<v Speaker 1>and we'll lower the trade deficit while we're doing it.

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<v Speaker 1>So Larry, if Larry Kudlow saying that there's greener pastures ahead,

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<v Speaker 1>bluer skies, all that stuff. Trump still knows what he's

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<v Speaker 1>doing on tariffs. We just need to see this through.

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<v Speaker 1>Is he right? How are we handling this situation with China.

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<v Speaker 1>To answer that question, we've got Gordon Chang with us

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<v Speaker 1>he's the author of The Coming Collapse of China and

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<v Speaker 1>a columnist. Gordon, great to have you back. Thank you

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<v Speaker 1>so much, buck Well. Gordon, what do you make of

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<v Speaker 1>where we are right now in the wake of the

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<v Speaker 1>g twenty sit down with Hijin Ping and President Trump?

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<v Speaker 1>We've got this ninety day window to try and hammer

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<v Speaker 1>out some kind of a deal. Has Trump been playing

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<v Speaker 1>this right so far? I think President Trump has done

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<v Speaker 1>a great job, at least up until Saturday. On Saturday

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<v Speaker 1>at the dinner with Sijn Ping at twenty in Argentina,

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<v Speaker 1>I think you have to score the round for the

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<v Speaker 1>Chinese for a number of reasons. I know that they've

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<v Speaker 1>made a lot of promises, but they've made a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of promises in the past and they haven't been really

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<v Speaker 1>very good in keeping them. Also, you know, on a

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<v Speaker 1>ninety day truth means the Chinese are going to steal

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<v Speaker 1>more US intellectual property. And I don't know exactly what

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<v Speaker 1>that number is, but it's going to be in the

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<v Speaker 1>tens of billions of dollars. Because each year or the

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<v Speaker 1>Chinese steal hundreds of billions of dollars. So we're giving

1:15:07.439 --> 1:15:11.680
<v Speaker 1>them like a seventy eighty billion dollar free pass on

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<v Speaker 1>more USIP. We've heard a lot of what China will do.

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<v Speaker 1>It would be nice to think that they actually do it,

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<v Speaker 1>But at this particular time, I think we just need

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<v Speaker 1>to be very concerned because Siejin Ping believes in a

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<v Speaker 1>state dominated economy, believes in closing up China to foreign competitors,

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<v Speaker 1>and this just does not sound like the sieging thing

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<v Speaker 1>that we've known for about five and a half six years.

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<v Speaker 1>Where are the areas that you think he is willing to,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, bend are What are the negotiables as you

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<v Speaker 1>see them on this tariff and trade issue Gordon from

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<v Speaker 1>the Chinese perspective, and where are we probably just you know,

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<v Speaker 1>screaming into an empty room trying to get them to

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<v Speaker 1>change their ways. I think that they will reduce tariffs,

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<v Speaker 1>but I don't think they'll actually reduce non tariff barriers.

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<v Speaker 1>And if they reduced some of them, they'll put new

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<v Speaker 1>ones up. So that's I think not going to be Well,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll win a little bit on terms of trade deficit,

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<v Speaker 1>but not terribly much. But the most important thing buck

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<v Speaker 1>is not trade deficit, although that is something that we

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<v Speaker 1>would want. The most important thing is the theft of

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<v Speaker 1>US intellectual property, and I don't see China slowing that

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<v Speaker 1>down at all. You know, as we've seen from the

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<v Speaker 1>NSA report and also from the report from the US

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<v Speaker 1>Trade Representative, they've been stealing much more stuff. It ramped

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<v Speaker 1>up a lot in the middle of twenty seventeen, and

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<v Speaker 1>I don't see that making those structural changes to so

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<v Speaker 1>that they would no longer steal our stuff. And in

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<v Speaker 1>terms of you know, the Chinese economies paying up to

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<v Speaker 1>this point versus our payman, the Chinese market, I know

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<v Speaker 1>has gotten gotten hit pretty hard, and obviously people are

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<v Speaker 1>a little more concerned about the US market. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>how do you assess our leverage in dealing with them

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<v Speaker 1>on this issue? Do you think that the American people

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<v Speaker 1>are willing to see this through? You know, people a

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<v Speaker 1>few months ago we're looking at farmers who were suffering

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<v Speaker 1>a bit because of China's retaliatory tariffs on our retaliatory tariffs,

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<v Speaker 1>much delayed tariffs, but farmers in the Midwest. We're saying, well,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I want to give Trump the leeway for

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<v Speaker 1>him to actually try his policy, see his policy through

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<v Speaker 1>to fruition. Do you think that we I mean, is

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<v Speaker 1>it possible that we could stick together on this one

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<v Speaker 1>and actually get to that point, or are you worried

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<v Speaker 1>that we're going to buckle under the pressure of the

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<v Speaker 1>economic pain we're going to feel. I think that political

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<v Speaker 1>will is the big question mark. When you look at

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<v Speaker 1>the objective factors, we have overwhelming leverage over China. When

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<v Speaker 1>you look at trade deficit, you look at the size

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<v Speaker 1>of economy, you look at trade dependency. All of these

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<v Speaker 1>factors show that we've got much more pull over the

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<v Speaker 1>Chinese and may have over us, and it's not even close.

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<v Speaker 1>Buck The only thing that is unknown, and it's really

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<v Speaker 1>the most important factor is political will. And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>forget the American people for a moment. On Saturday, we

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<v Speaker 1>saw that the President of the United States, who is

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<v Speaker 1>passionate about this issue, didn't have the political will to

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<v Speaker 1>confront the Chinese. What he decided to do was to

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<v Speaker 1>go for delay. Now, maybe that's the right decision, but

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<v Speaker 1>I actually don't think so, because what we're doing right

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<v Speaker 1>now is, you know, we Americans think, you know, if

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<v Speaker 1>we give them a concession, which we did by not

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<v Speaker 1>going through with the scheduled teriff increases from ten to

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<v Speaker 1>twenty five percent, we think, oh, if we give them

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<v Speaker 1>a concession, they'll be generous to us and they'll return

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<v Speaker 1>the gratitude. That's not the way the Chinese think. That's

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<v Speaker 1>not the way the Chinese treat other countries. You just

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<v Speaker 1>got to keep the pressure up until they have no

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<v Speaker 1>choice but to do the right thing. We don't have

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<v Speaker 1>the will to do that, and I think we'll eventually

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<v Speaker 1>get there, because the Chinese will push us too far.

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<v Speaker 1>But I'm not liking what I'm seeing out of the

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<v Speaker 1>Trump administration for the last three or four days. And

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<v Speaker 1>I certainly don't like it when I hear people say, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, it's different this time, because for an administration

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<v Speaker 1>official to say that, I think is just inappropriate. And

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<v Speaker 1>we're speaking of Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse

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<v Speaker 1>of China, Gordon, is there a future that's a win

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<v Speaker 1>win for everybody here? Is that something that's possible? You think?

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<v Speaker 1>Is there a world in which, at some point down

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<v Speaker 1>the line, China liberalizes its trade policy, stops cheating in

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<v Speaker 1>its trade policy, and therefore gets richer and better. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like at the center of all this free

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<v Speaker 1>trade thinking is the rising tide that lifts all boats.

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<v Speaker 1>Is that a possible future for the Chinese as well,

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<v Speaker 1>or are they going to basically just lose out by

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<v Speaker 1>not continuing to cheat the way they have Well, Buck,

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<v Speaker 1>it is possible, especially if the Communist Party is no

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<v Speaker 1>longer rule in China, if CGM pain is around. He

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't believe in win win solutions. He doesn't even believe

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<v Speaker 1>in the notion of comparative advantage, which is the fundamental

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<v Speaker 1>concept that underlies the global trading system. So it's extremely

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<v Speaker 1>unlikely there's a win win solution. As long as Seach

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<v Speaker 1>and Ping is around, as long as the Communist Party

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<v Speaker 1>is around, we can get there. But China's got to

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<v Speaker 1>be a much better China than it's been for the

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<v Speaker 1>last four decades before we let you go, Gordon, how

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<v Speaker 1>are we doing with North Korea? Well, we're not doing

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<v Speaker 1>too well. Especially we haven't been doing too well since

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<v Speaker 1>the middle or so of May. Up until May or so,

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<v Speaker 1>President Trump's policy was extraordinarily effective. But you know, since then,

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<v Speaker 1>he's let the pressure off. And he's done that because

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<v Speaker 1>he wants to create this favorable environment so that Kim

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<v Speaker 1>Jong un can make the right decision. As the President

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<v Speaker 1>talked about before the Singapore summit, but the North Koreans

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<v Speaker 1>are not returning the gratitude, They're not returning the gesture.

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<v Speaker 1>And so I think President Trump's going to have to

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<v Speaker 1>go back to that maximum pressure campaign. He may not

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<v Speaker 1>like to do it, but unless he wants Kim Jong

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<v Speaker 1>un to make him look a little bit foolish, he's

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<v Speaker 1>going to have to go back to what made him

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<v Speaker 1>successful through the middle of May. And if not, Kim

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<v Speaker 1>Jong un is just going to run over not only

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<v Speaker 1>the United States but South Korea. We're going to probably

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<v Speaker 1>lose our ally there. As Moon Jay in the pro

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<v Speaker 1>North Korean president takes advantage of this, as the Chinese

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<v Speaker 1>take advantage of it, as the Russians take advantage of it.

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<v Speaker 1>President Trump can still win this, but he's got a

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<v Speaker 1>change course. Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China,

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<v Speaker 1>also go check out his website Gordon Z. Chang dot com.

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<v Speaker 1>Gordon always great to have you all, my friend. We'll

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<v Speaker 1>talk to you soon. Thanks. Buck All right, team, we

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<v Speaker 1>I just had a fall for you about impeachment because

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<v Speaker 1>you were talking about the hypothetical standard of the GOP

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<v Speaker 1>set in the nineties. What did you mean by that

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<v Speaker 1>standard and what do you how does that apply to

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<v Speaker 1>today with Trump? Well? I just think, um, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I think what overall when you look at the Broach

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<v Speaker 1>stroke they took, how far they would take, um, and

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<v Speaker 1>how how granularly they would dig into that process and

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<v Speaker 1>so um. Sorry, I'm in the middle of office picking,

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<v Speaker 1>so I just like I can't act right now. Aside right, No,

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<v Speaker 1>I understand you've been supportive of impeaching for a while though,

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<v Speaker 1>So what do you think after the Russia developments? Do

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<v Speaker 1>you think the Democrats should go in that direction? I

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<v Speaker 1>would be supportive, and anyone we're seeing here is really

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<v Speaker 1>serious questions emoluments. I gotta tell you, you wouldn't want

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<v Speaker 1>Okazio Cortez to be the captain of your team on

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<v Speaker 1>trivia night. Just just a little safety tip for me

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<v Speaker 1>to you. You would not want her to be the

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<v Speaker 1>one in charge of getting the right answers to the

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<v Speaker 1>trivia questions. Okay, it would not go Well, she's gone

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<v Speaker 1>the hallway there. This is what you reporters do. Sometimes

1:24:05.720 --> 1:24:09.439
<v Speaker 1>they come up and ask it. Look at the people's house, right,

1:24:09.520 --> 1:24:11.720
<v Speaker 1>you're in Congress they come up there and they try

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<v Speaker 1>to ask you questions. I've done it before, ask questions

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<v Speaker 1>the hallway to remembers of Congress. So I understand she's

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<v Speaker 1>on the move everything else. But she's like, well, like

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<v Speaker 1>I just think overall, like when you look at like

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<v Speaker 1>the broad stroke they took, like how far they would

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<v Speaker 1>take and how granularly they would dig into that process.

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<v Speaker 1>O'casio Cortez is so fascinating, I think to conservative you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the left is already throwing up the usual defenses. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>it's because she's a woman. Oh it's because she's a minority.

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<v Speaker 1>That's why conservatives are so hard on her. No, it's

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<v Speaker 1>because she's so symbolic, really or really emblematic. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>she's somebody who is, in a sense, the epitome of

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<v Speaker 1>a progressive millennial. And now you finally have that progressive

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<v Speaker 1>millennial in a national political light, and what you see

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<v Speaker 1>is somebody who has picked up all of the buzzwords

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<v Speaker 1>and the slogans. I mean, she's certainly been around a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of social justice talk for a long time and

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<v Speaker 1>has also understood that there are just phrases that you

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<v Speaker 1>can say, there are things that you can paret. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>just repeat that you have heard that are a way

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<v Speaker 1>of signaling to your own side that you are one

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<v Speaker 1>of them. That the very specific word choice, saying things

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<v Speaker 1>like talking about always democracy and social justice and now

1:25:37.600 --> 1:25:40.519
<v Speaker 1>these days saying things like undermining institutions whenever you're talking

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<v Speaker 1>about Trump. You know, there are certain words redistributive. Throw

1:25:44.760 --> 1:25:48.160
<v Speaker 1>throwing the term redistributive when you mean Marxists. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>throw in the term equality when you really mean special

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<v Speaker 1>rights for or new rights created for. There there's a

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<v Speaker 1>way of speaking that signals to people that you are

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<v Speaker 1>of a certain mindset, and Okazio Cortez has that down.

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<v Speaker 1>But what you see with her is those phrases, those words,

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<v Speaker 1>there's very little knowledge beneath them, and knowledge does matter.

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<v Speaker 1>Knowledge matters. You can't, in fact, just go on on style.

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<v Speaker 1>There has to be something below that, because without knowledge

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<v Speaker 1>it's very hard to have wisdom, and without wisdom, it's

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<v Speaker 1>very difficult to have good judgment. But what you see

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<v Speaker 1>in the case of Ocasio Cortez is somebody who sounds

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<v Speaker 1>the part, emotes the way she's supposed to connect, connects

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<v Speaker 1>the way she's supposed to on the left, but does

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<v Speaker 1>not have the underlying substance to back it up. And

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think she's going to get it anytime soon either,

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<v Speaker 1>and they're just going to continue to prop her up

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<v Speaker 1>and back her up. It really reminds me in a way. Look,

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<v Speaker 1>Obama had a much more impressive academic pedigree, although people

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<v Speaker 1>always get mad at me and say, you know, the

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<v Speaker 1>guy was, you know, a student in the eighties or

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<v Speaker 1>whatever it was in the late seventies that I guess

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<v Speaker 1>late in the seventies at Occidental College, which is fine,

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<v Speaker 1>but you know, it's not like this guy was some

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<v Speaker 1>academic superstar. He somehow got into Columbia as a transfer

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<v Speaker 1>and then all of a sudden is like at the

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<v Speaker 1>top of Harvard Law Review. That's a very unusual rise

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<v Speaker 1>for someone to make. And there are, I think, very

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<v Speaker 1>honest questions to ask about how much of that was

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<v Speaker 1>understanding the system versus real academic superstardom. That all said,

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<v Speaker 1>he clearly has a more impressive academic pedigree than Occasio Cortez.

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<v Speaker 1>But Obama was a guy who would get away with

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<v Speaker 1>saying really flimsy things on a regular basis. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>I saw today on Twitter. I would give him credit

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<v Speaker 1>but I can't remember who did it. I'm just I'm

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<v Speaker 1>so much of my life has spent reading an online

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<v Speaker 1>But there you had somebody who was making the case that,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, dan quail who is actually a very smart guy.

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<v Speaker 1>Dan Quaile misspelled potato once and was turned into a

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<v Speaker 1>laugh line, and people said he was stupid. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>dan Quayle equals stupid is a complete construct of the media.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think that's a very good example of how

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<v Speaker 1>the two sides, or rather how they treat people from

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<v Speaker 1>the two sides of the media. You know, O'caozio Cortes

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<v Speaker 1>can say endless dumb thing after another, just one foolish,

1:28:28.640 --> 1:28:33.200
<v Speaker 1>ignorant thing, and they'll say it's a gaff. Oh it's adorable,

1:28:33.400 --> 1:28:37.639
<v Speaker 1>Oh she's a dorcable without the numbers that she got wrong.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like not that big got dale. But when a

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<v Speaker 1>Republican says anything that's wrong, they're in an idiot who

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<v Speaker 1>can't tie can't tie their shoes. And it's very clear

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<v Speaker 1>that this is this is the standard that they've been

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<v Speaker 1>operating under, this double standard, and with Ocazio Cortez, you're

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<v Speaker 1>going to continue to see this. I also like though

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<v Speaker 1>that this is somebody who is part of this vanguard

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<v Speaker 1>of the kind of new age socialism in this country,

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<v Speaker 1>this new wave, I mean you now have and Obama

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<v Speaker 1>paved the way for this. You know, we forget how

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<v Speaker 1>far down the road of progressivism the Obama administration really

1:29:16.320 --> 1:29:19.000
<v Speaker 1>took us. But after eight years of Obama, the way

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<v Speaker 1>was cleared for the next generation of Democrats in elected

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<v Speaker 1>office to say, you know what, don't you like some

1:29:26.920 --> 1:29:29.320
<v Speaker 1>of the stuff we did well to complete it. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>if you want to really savor the flavor and get

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<v Speaker 1>all the all the best free stuff the government has

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<v Speaker 1>to offer, you gotta go full socialist. You can't do

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<v Speaker 1>this quasi socialist thing. And the truth is that a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of the Democrats, even more mainstream Democrats, know this

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<v Speaker 1>and understand that they are playing a role in this

1:29:48.600 --> 1:29:52.000
<v Speaker 1>transformation of the country. But it's really this Sanders Warren

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<v Speaker 1>Okazio Cortes wing of the party, even though Okazi Cortez

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<v Speaker 1>hasn't even been sworn in yet as a as a

1:29:58.479 --> 1:30:01.360
<v Speaker 1>member of Congress. But it's it's people who fall into

1:30:01.479 --> 1:30:05.080
<v Speaker 1>that part of the Democrat spectrum. They are the ones.

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<v Speaker 1>They're the ones who are openly saying you know, we

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<v Speaker 1>would like to be socialist. We want this country to

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<v Speaker 1>be a Democrat socialist country. And you know that designation

1:30:16.600 --> 1:30:20.000
<v Speaker 1>of Democrats social it doesn't really make all that much

1:30:20.040 --> 1:30:23.840
<v Speaker 1>difference because it's you know, socialism starts with some very

1:30:23.880 --> 1:30:26.519
<v Speaker 1>basic concepts and once they're in place, Yes, there there

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<v Speaker 1>are more extreme versions of it than others. But when

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<v Speaker 1>the government has essentially complete authority or takes upon itself

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<v Speaker 1>the right to dispense with property rights, then it can

1:30:40.120 --> 1:30:44.320
<v Speaker 1>dispense with individual rights. And then from there things just

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<v Speaker 1>get really bad, really quickly. Maybe it takes a bit

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<v Speaker 1>of time, maybe it's not right away, but once we

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<v Speaker 1>start down that slippery slope, things to get very very dark. Indeed,

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<v Speaker 1>so Okaz and Cortez, oh, and on impeaching Trump, I

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<v Speaker 1>just would say that the only thing that would prevent

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<v Speaker 1>them from impeaching Trump is if they think that it's

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<v Speaker 1>not in their political interest to do it. And I

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<v Speaker 1>do not. I do not think the Democrats have enough

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<v Speaker 1>self control. I do not believe the Democrat Party has

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<v Speaker 1>the impulse control to avoid giving into the rapid left

1:31:25.920 --> 1:31:29.880
<v Speaker 1>wing base and impeaching President Trump. I just think that

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<v Speaker 1>when push comes to shove, there are going to be

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<v Speaker 1>too many people wearing pink hats, marching, yelling, screaming, you know,

1:31:37.000 --> 1:31:40.840
<v Speaker 1>wearing handmaid's tail costumes, saying that Trump is Hitler and

1:31:41.240 --> 1:31:44.920
<v Speaker 1>you know kkk Usa and all this crazy stuff. There'll

1:31:44.960 --> 1:31:47.800
<v Speaker 1>be too many of them, and they will go forward

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<v Speaker 1>with impeachment, even if it is not in their political

1:31:52.040 --> 1:31:57.840
<v Speaker 1>interest to do so. I certainly think it's a good

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<v Speaker 1>thing that President George HW. Bush is receiving the honor

1:32:03.800 --> 1:32:08.080
<v Speaker 1>that he earned and that he deserves as a veteran,

1:32:08.360 --> 1:32:13.759
<v Speaker 1>a war hero, a former president, somebody who spent decades

1:32:13.800 --> 1:32:15.920
<v Speaker 1>in the service of his country and did so with

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<v Speaker 1>a tremendous amount of decency and kindness by all accounts.

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<v Speaker 1>But I also think that over this holiday season, it's

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<v Speaker 1>important for us all to remember, as we as we

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<v Speaker 1>get closer to Christmas, that not everyone who deserves a

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<v Speaker 1>hero's remembrance gets it. In fact, very very few of

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<v Speaker 1>those who have led exemplary lives, who have sacrificed a

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<v Speaker 1>tremendous amount in the service of their country, and who

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<v Speaker 1>are in fact, by every by every definition of the

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<v Speaker 1>word heroes, very very few of them are celebrated as such.

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<v Speaker 1>This this really strung me A fellow named Patrick Meade

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<v Speaker 1>wrote this online. He is a he's a minister and

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<v Speaker 1>a guitarist, and this got a lot of attention. Over

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<v Speaker 1>the weekends, A lot of people shared this. He wrote

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<v Speaker 1>the following, I had to place my father in dementia

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<v Speaker 1>care today and drive away. I can only be there

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<v Speaker 1>every couple of weeks, so I tape this to his door.

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<v Speaker 1>I want the staff to know who the man in

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<v Speaker 1>number fourteen, Room fourteen truly is. And he writes this

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<v Speaker 1>speaking from the perspective of his dad, who is now

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<v Speaker 1>in full time care because of his dementia. Quote. My

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<v Speaker 1>name is Bill Mead. I was born in abject poverty.

1:33:50.600 --> 1:33:56.920
<v Speaker 1>I became a warrior US Navy Korean War Korean War era.

1:33:59.120 --> 1:34:03.000
<v Speaker 1>I then laid aside my weapons and became a minister

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<v Speaker 1>and a missionary. I traveled the world spreading the Gospel

1:34:07.600 --> 1:34:11.880
<v Speaker 1>of Jesus Christ, bringing hope, medicine, and love to the

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<v Speaker 1>United States, Europe, South America, and Africa. I am slowly

1:34:18.200 --> 1:34:22.559
<v Speaker 1>leaving this earth for my heavenly home. This may take

1:34:22.600 --> 1:34:26.640
<v Speaker 1>a while. Thank you for remembering who I was and

1:34:26.840 --> 1:34:33.480
<v Speaker 1>who I am. I am a man, a warrior, a missionary,

1:34:34.160 --> 1:34:41.559
<v Speaker 1>a father, a friend, and much more so in a way.

1:34:42.760 --> 1:34:46.559
<v Speaker 1>I think now we can take a moment to step

1:34:46.600 --> 1:34:50.960
<v Speaker 1>back and say, how would we treat the people in

1:34:51.120 --> 1:34:56.479
<v Speaker 1>our lives if we assumed that many of them had

1:34:56.560 --> 1:35:02.160
<v Speaker 1>overcome tremendous challenges, had in their own way served, had

1:35:02.240 --> 1:35:06.479
<v Speaker 1>in their own way been a soldier, a soldier of Christ,

1:35:06.680 --> 1:35:09.240
<v Speaker 1>if not a soldier on the actual battlefield. How would

1:35:09.280 --> 1:35:13.599
<v Speaker 1>we treat people if we didn't know, but always took

1:35:13.680 --> 1:35:18.080
<v Speaker 1>the approach that there was something beautiful and great and

1:35:18.520 --> 1:35:22.920
<v Speaker 1>worthwhile within them. I understand that over the holidays that

1:35:23.000 --> 1:35:28.000
<v Speaker 1>can feel like we are saturated with all this commercialism,

1:35:28.800 --> 1:35:32.280
<v Speaker 1>this desire to try to get nice gifts and take

1:35:32.360 --> 1:35:36.320
<v Speaker 1>these vacations, and that's pete. Look, people work hard. They

1:35:36.439 --> 1:35:40.720
<v Speaker 1>deserve to show their love for their family members and

1:35:40.800 --> 1:35:45.280
<v Speaker 1>friends with gifts to do things that you bring us

1:35:45.320 --> 1:35:48.120
<v Speaker 1>all together, whether it's a big dinner or vacation or

1:35:48.200 --> 1:35:51.320
<v Speaker 1>whatever it may be. But I also think that there's

1:35:51.400 --> 1:35:54.519
<v Speaker 1>room four reflection on how we all go about our

1:35:54.960 --> 1:35:57.320
<v Speaker 1>day to day lives and one of the most important

1:35:57.360 --> 1:35:59.000
<v Speaker 1>things because it's one of the areas where we can

1:35:59.160 --> 1:36:05.240
<v Speaker 1>always improve, Where self assessment and self improvement are never

1:36:05.360 --> 1:36:07.880
<v Speaker 1>out of place, and that is how we treat one another.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think there's a reason why this man Patrick

1:36:12.840 --> 1:36:15.960
<v Speaker 1>Mead's message written in the voice of his father for

1:36:16.040 --> 1:36:18.760
<v Speaker 1>the staff at the facility that's taken care of him

1:36:18.800 --> 1:36:23.280
<v Speaker 1>in his period of dementia really resonated with people because

1:36:23.800 --> 1:36:27.560
<v Speaker 1>this man Bill Mead, was a warrior, was a missionary,

1:36:28.360 --> 1:36:30.880
<v Speaker 1>was a man working in the service of God, and

1:36:31.080 --> 1:36:36.640
<v Speaker 1>deserves all of the respect and kindness and support that

1:36:36.800 --> 1:36:40.120
<v Speaker 1>that entails. And a lot of the people in our

1:36:40.160 --> 1:36:44.240
<v Speaker 1>lives are also, in their own way, warriors for what

1:36:44.479 --> 1:36:48.600
<v Speaker 1>is good. We should give them that respect and that

1:36:48.720 --> 1:36:53.240
<v Speaker 1>support as much as we possibly can. The show ain't

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<v Speaker 1>over yet, folks. It's time for roll call. All right.

1:37:02.479 --> 1:37:06.000
<v Speaker 1>It's Tuesday, which gets us halfway to hump Day, so

1:37:06.439 --> 1:37:09.960
<v Speaker 1>it's like half hump day. That doesn't sound about much fun.

1:37:10.240 --> 1:37:13.840
<v Speaker 1>Facebook dot Com slash buck Sexton if you want to

1:37:13.960 --> 1:37:16.760
<v Speaker 1>have your message read on air, If you don't, by

1:37:16.800 --> 1:37:19.160
<v Speaker 1>the way, just right at the top for you only,

1:37:19.320 --> 1:37:22.240
<v Speaker 1>or don't read on air that way, it'll just be

1:37:22.400 --> 1:37:25.599
<v Speaker 1>to me and the team. All right. We have John

1:37:25.680 --> 1:37:28.720
<v Speaker 1>who writes all right, man, I had to chime into

1:37:28.760 --> 1:37:32.280
<v Speaker 1>here about all this best accent talk your best is

1:37:32.439 --> 1:37:36.639
<v Speaker 1>soros by far. Thank you very much for this touto stuck.

1:37:38.680 --> 1:37:40.559
<v Speaker 1>Also called a new show on Netflix you'd like. It's

1:37:40.560 --> 1:37:43.559
<v Speaker 1>called Bodyguard. It's set in the UK and the main

1:37:43.680 --> 1:37:46.840
<v Speaker 1>character is an anti terrorism intelligence officer. The show has

1:37:46.880 --> 1:37:50.320
<v Speaker 1>a very realistic deep state twist on things. It also

1:37:50.640 --> 1:37:53.280
<v Speaker 1>builds up quick you'll be hooked in ten minutes. So

1:37:53.640 --> 1:37:57.320
<v Speaker 1>I watched the first episode almost all the way through

1:37:57.520 --> 1:38:00.519
<v Speaker 1>of that show, John, and I thought the opening sequence

1:38:00.600 --> 1:38:03.720
<v Speaker 1>with the suicide bomber was very very well done, and

1:38:03.840 --> 1:38:07.240
<v Speaker 1>then I got really bored as this as the episode

1:38:07.280 --> 1:38:10.680
<v Speaker 1>went on. So I haven't gotten yet to the interesting

1:38:11.360 --> 1:38:13.560
<v Speaker 1>deep state component of it yet, but I'm willing to

1:38:13.600 --> 1:38:16.200
<v Speaker 1>go back and and watch again because you're not the

1:38:16.240 --> 1:38:18.280
<v Speaker 1>only person. They've been a number of people who've told

1:38:18.320 --> 1:38:21.640
<v Speaker 1>me that it's a very very good show, and then

1:38:21.680 --> 1:38:27.040
<v Speaker 1>I should really give it a shot. Rob Rights, Oh wait,

1:38:27.080 --> 1:38:30.360
<v Speaker 1>no wait, we got more from John Sorry, also caught

1:38:30.400 --> 1:38:32.280
<v Speaker 1>a new show and oh no, you know that is

1:38:32.320 --> 1:38:35.320
<v Speaker 1>the also Okay, so we got that Rob Rights. Mission

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<v Speaker 1>complete brought a tear to my eye too. Your thoughts

1:38:39.479 --> 1:38:42.320
<v Speaker 1>on that image of man's best friend make you trustworthy?

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<v Speaker 1>Will thank you Rob, Rob's referring to George H. W.

1:38:46.080 --> 1:38:50.439
<v Speaker 1>Bush's service dog, Sully. It was just a It was

1:38:50.479 --> 1:38:53.759
<v Speaker 1>just a very powerful, very powerful image, very powerful photo.

1:38:53.840 --> 1:38:59.559
<v Speaker 1>And perhaps no surprise, but somebody from slate dot com,

1:38:59.680 --> 1:39:02.880
<v Speaker 1>which is one of these left wing news sites, one

1:39:02.960 --> 1:39:06.639
<v Speaker 1>of many many left wing sites all for the millennial

1:39:06.800 --> 1:39:11.880
<v Speaker 1>pajama boy generation, wrote something that was more or less

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<v Speaker 1>telling us that Sully had only been with the president

1:39:15.520 --> 1:39:19.439
<v Speaker 1>for six months, to which I had to think, why

1:39:19.520 --> 1:39:22.559
<v Speaker 1>would anybody take their time to write this? Here? Let

1:39:22.600 --> 1:39:25.519
<v Speaker 1>me give you the Sully. This is from Slate. Sully

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<v Speaker 1>HW Bush is a service dog who had been with

1:39:29.240 --> 1:39:32.240
<v Speaker 1>the president for six months, not his lifelong companion. This

1:39:32.400 --> 1:39:36.840
<v Speaker 1>is what an author at Slate decided to write, as

1:39:36.880 --> 1:39:39.720
<v Speaker 1>if we needed to be told that. And I would

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<v Speaker 1>just note that the bond between a human being and

1:39:42.560 --> 1:39:45.679
<v Speaker 1>his or her dog is not a time constrained thing,

1:39:46.040 --> 1:39:48.240
<v Speaker 1>and anybody who's ever had a dog and had a

1:39:48.360 --> 1:39:51.639
<v Speaker 1>very close relationship with a dog understands why that image

1:39:51.720 --> 1:39:54.120
<v Speaker 1>was so powerful. I just wish the left would stop

1:39:54.200 --> 1:39:58.439
<v Speaker 1>being such a bunch of foolish haters, but they can't

1:39:58.479 --> 1:40:05.760
<v Speaker 1>help themselves. Thea rights whoa first Veep then president was

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<v Speaker 1>John Adams, one of the greatest men that lived and

1:40:09.120 --> 1:40:13.120
<v Speaker 1>extremely underrated. We would not have had our country with Adam. Yes,

1:40:13.200 --> 1:40:17.120
<v Speaker 1>you are correct. The last time, before hw Bush, we

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<v Speaker 1>had a VP who then became the elected then was

1:40:21.320 --> 1:40:24.840
<v Speaker 1>elected to the presidency, not became president because of an assassination.

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<v Speaker 1>Or was the fellow that I mentioned yesterday Martin van Buren.

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<v Speaker 1>The issue is whether somebody was elected to be president

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<v Speaker 1>for being a vice president. So there you go. You

1:40:40.280 --> 1:40:43.160
<v Speaker 1>are correct. John Adams was vice president and then became

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<v Speaker 1>President of the United States. Judy writes, Titanic, are you kidding?

1:40:49.439 --> 1:40:52.559
<v Speaker 1>Everyone dies? Save myself the money? I like you anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>Original Saturday Squad shield side Judy, I'm not saying that

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<v Speaker 1>I like Titanic. I think it's a sappy, pretty ridiculous

1:41:02.080 --> 1:41:06.360
<v Speaker 1>movie all things considered. I'm not somebody who is pro

1:41:07.160 --> 1:41:10.679
<v Speaker 1>Titanic as a film. I'm just saying we all saw

1:41:10.800 --> 1:41:13.439
<v Speaker 1>that movie, and people who tell you that they haven't

1:41:13.439 --> 1:41:15.760
<v Speaker 1>seen Titanic, I just think they're playing a little fast

1:41:15.800 --> 1:41:17.639
<v Speaker 1>and loose with the truth. I think it's very clear

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<v Speaker 1>that Titanic is a movie that pretty much everybody who

1:41:21.520 --> 1:41:26.400
<v Speaker 1>sees movies probably went to at some point in time.

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<v Speaker 1>Kimberly writes, my favorite story is the Christmas story. It's

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<v Speaker 1>beautiful on its own. It deserves no distractions. We made

1:41:35.520 --> 1:41:39.280
<v Speaker 1>it the meeting of our holiday. And I agree about

1:41:39.360 --> 1:41:42.040
<v Speaker 1>Santa boom Buck. I got a lot of pushback. However,

1:41:42.479 --> 1:41:45.639
<v Speaker 1>I felt uncomfortable telling my children Santa was real. As

1:41:45.680 --> 1:41:47.360
<v Speaker 1>a person of faith, I did not want them to

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<v Speaker 1>think the Christmas story was another tall tale. I made

1:41:50.360 --> 1:41:53.960
<v Speaker 1>a choice, and we still have wonderful celebrations. My favorite

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<v Speaker 1>stories were My oldest son in public said, look, Mom,

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<v Speaker 1>it's the Christmas Man. Yeah. I don't really understand why.

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<v Speaker 1>You're also just quick to tell our kids things that

1:42:03.600 --> 1:42:09.240
<v Speaker 1>are not true. I don't know why that's something that

1:42:09.320 --> 1:42:12.400
<v Speaker 1>we're all okay with. With the Santa Claus story, we

1:42:12.520 --> 1:42:15.000
<v Speaker 1>could just say there's this myth of Santa, and we

1:42:15.040 --> 1:42:18.240
<v Speaker 1>could just tell it like a story without convincing kids.

1:42:18.680 --> 1:42:21.720
<v Speaker 1>Oh no, this is a thing that happens. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure that I agree with that approach, but

1:42:24.120 --> 1:42:27.479
<v Speaker 1>I'm open to my mind being changed on it. I

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<v Speaker 1>know it's your tradition and people do it, and I

1:42:29.720 --> 1:42:32.040
<v Speaker 1>sound like a grinch and all that stuff Remember, the

1:42:32.080 --> 1:42:34.720
<v Speaker 1>Grinch has a happy ending. The Grinch in the end

1:42:34.800 --> 1:42:39.720
<v Speaker 1>realizes that Whoville everyone's happy even though their presence have

1:42:39.840 --> 1:42:42.800
<v Speaker 1>been taken, and the Grinch's heart kind of melts in

1:42:43.160 --> 1:42:46.920
<v Speaker 1>a good way. Josh Right, Shield's high, Buck, there's no

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<v Speaker 1>genre more misogynistic than rap music. Gonna have to ban

1:42:51.040 --> 1:42:54.280
<v Speaker 1>an entire industry. Merry Christmas to you, Ada, miss Molly Well,

1:42:54.320 --> 1:42:57.360
<v Speaker 1>thank you so much just for writing in. And yes,

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<v Speaker 1>there's clearly a double standard when it comes to banning

1:43:02.320 --> 1:43:06.439
<v Speaker 1>misogyny in artwork and music. Specifically, when it comes to

1:43:06.560 --> 1:43:10.960
<v Speaker 1>hip hop music, there's a lot of not even casual misogyny,

1:43:11.040 --> 1:43:14.960
<v Speaker 1>there's a lot of really aggressive misogyny in hip hop music.

1:43:15.160 --> 1:43:18.400
<v Speaker 1>And we're told that that's just the way that it is,

1:43:18.520 --> 1:43:20.720
<v Speaker 1>that this is just something that people can accept. And

1:43:20.840 --> 1:43:24.040
<v Speaker 1>I wish that was. I wish that we had a

1:43:24.160 --> 1:43:28.320
<v Speaker 1>more clear standard on this one. How about that? Johann

1:43:28.560 --> 1:43:30.720
<v Speaker 1>Right listening as I write this, and the solution to

1:43:30.800 --> 1:43:33.200
<v Speaker 1>covering the border would be to deputize the many Americans

1:43:33.200 --> 1:43:35.439
<v Speaker 1>who would do it for free. Buck, you have the

1:43:35.520 --> 1:43:38.880
<v Speaker 1>best voice, including today and pace of delivery, of all

1:43:38.920 --> 1:43:41.920
<v Speaker 1>the talk show hosts. You are the WFB of our time,

1:43:42.320 --> 1:43:45.240
<v Speaker 1>William F. Buckley going up in the sixties on Long Island.

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<v Speaker 1>The movie that meant Christmas to me was Laurel and

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<v Speaker 1>Hardy in the March of the Wooden Soldiers. Wow, I've

1:43:49.520 --> 1:43:51.960
<v Speaker 1>actually seen that many times too. That's interesting, Johan, I

1:43:52.040 --> 1:43:54.640
<v Speaker 1>forgot about that movie. Buck. One thing I disagree with

1:43:54.680 --> 1:43:57.560
<v Speaker 1>you about is coffee. We have a supermarket here that

1:43:57.640 --> 1:44:00.760
<v Speaker 1>always has was one brand on sale. Recently I got

1:44:00.840 --> 1:44:02.519
<v Speaker 1>the big can at Chalk Full of Nuts for four

1:44:02.720 --> 1:44:05.040
<v Speaker 1>ninety nine. In the queue. We also have cans of

1:44:05.160 --> 1:44:08.800
<v Speaker 1>Maxwell House. The thing I am sure many veterans work

1:44:08.840 --> 1:44:10.880
<v Speaker 1>for those companies too. Know. Something I don't like that

1:44:11.040 --> 1:44:13.280
<v Speaker 1>is now happening is the inclusion of first responders with

1:44:13.360 --> 1:44:16.120
<v Speaker 1>the military, including the line thank you for your service.

1:44:16.640 --> 1:44:19.519
<v Speaker 1>I was okay with my compensation in both, and I'm

1:44:19.560 --> 1:44:21.680
<v Speaker 1>no fan of the current adoration, but if we were

1:44:21.720 --> 1:44:23.160
<v Speaker 1>to have it, the military should be the ones that

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<v Speaker 1>get it, Johan. So a few things are. First of all,

1:44:27.479 --> 1:44:29.759
<v Speaker 1>thank you for your kind words about my voice and delivery.

1:44:29.800 --> 1:44:32.080
<v Speaker 1>And hopefully you didn't like it more yesterday than you

1:44:32.160 --> 1:44:35.479
<v Speaker 1>normally do, because that means that my cold, you know,

1:44:35.640 --> 1:44:38.200
<v Speaker 1>my cold, and sinus infection voice is my best radio

1:44:38.280 --> 1:44:40.640
<v Speaker 1>voice because today I'm still in the misery of all that.

1:44:41.479 --> 1:44:43.200
<v Speaker 1>But hey, if you like it, you like it, so

1:44:43.360 --> 1:44:45.400
<v Speaker 1>I'm just glad you're enjoying the show. But you're very

1:44:45.520 --> 1:44:48.400
<v Speaker 1>kind and your support means a lot. As to March

1:44:48.439 --> 1:44:50.320
<v Speaker 1>with the Wooden Soldiers, I've seen that many times too,

1:44:50.360 --> 1:44:53.080
<v Speaker 1>and I really liked that movie. I remember liking as

1:44:53.120 --> 1:44:55.800
<v Speaker 1>a kid. I can't remember it that well now. And

1:44:55.920 --> 1:44:58.960
<v Speaker 1>then as to coffee, like I just I'm friends with

1:44:59.040 --> 1:45:01.479
<v Speaker 1>the guys who run Black Rifle. It's a great company.

1:45:01.520 --> 1:45:04.240
<v Speaker 1>The coffee is really honestly delicious. I mean it's not

1:45:04.320 --> 1:45:05.960
<v Speaker 1>just because they're a sponsor of the show, as you know,

1:45:06.040 --> 1:45:08.440
<v Speaker 1>they are a sponsor of the show. Their coffee is phenomenal,

1:45:08.920 --> 1:45:11.280
<v Speaker 1>and they're great guys and they're doing really, really good things.

1:45:11.760 --> 1:45:15.720
<v Speaker 1>As to the issue of first responders and veterans, you know,

1:45:16.000 --> 1:45:18.160
<v Speaker 1>I can only speak to it from this perspective. I

1:45:18.600 --> 1:45:21.560
<v Speaker 1>always feel a little I think there's a bit of

1:45:24.120 --> 1:45:27.360
<v Speaker 1>discomfort that many of us who were civilians who served

1:45:27.400 --> 1:45:30.400
<v Speaker 1>in the war zones feel when it comes to how

1:45:31.160 --> 1:45:34.080
<v Speaker 1>we're supposed to present what we did or how especially

1:45:34.200 --> 1:45:36.679
<v Speaker 1>in my case where I can't even really talk about

1:45:36.840 --> 1:45:39.160
<v Speaker 1>some of what I did any I can get pretty

1:45:39.160 --> 1:45:41.439
<v Speaker 1>annoyed sometimes because people say things like, oh, well, you

1:45:41.479 --> 1:45:43.840
<v Speaker 1>were just an analyst, you were back at Langley. It's like, well, no,

1:45:44.040 --> 1:45:47.920
<v Speaker 1>actually I actually traveled with military and was armed and

1:45:48.120 --> 1:45:51.360
<v Speaker 1>was trained to fight. I mean, I was not somebody

1:45:51.400 --> 1:45:53.800
<v Speaker 1>who was expected to just sit there at a desk,

1:45:53.960 --> 1:45:56.599
<v Speaker 1>never go outside the wire or never do anything that said.

1:45:56.600 --> 1:45:58.200
<v Speaker 1>I was also not a door kick or not a

1:45:58.320 --> 1:46:01.360
<v Speaker 1>frontline person at all. Most of my time was spent

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<v Speaker 1>on bases. Keep in mind, you could also die on

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<v Speaker 1>base if there's an ambush, or if you're not an ambush,

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<v Speaker 1>an assault or mortar rounds. I mean, so it's not

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<v Speaker 1>like it's some picnic being on these bases in the

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<v Speaker 1>war zones either. But you know, where do we gauge that?

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<v Speaker 1>And I was think it's interesting, you know, so if

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<v Speaker 1>somebody was if somebody served in the Coastguard, but I

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<v Speaker 1>served in a rocket Afghanistan for the CIA, do I

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<v Speaker 1>do people tell me thank you for your service or not?

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<v Speaker 1>Did they tell a person who serving the Coastguard thank

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<v Speaker 1>you for your service? Somebody? You know, you get into

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<v Speaker 1>and I think ultimately it's just serving your country, serving

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<v Speaker 1>your nation, serving your fellow Americans is a good thing

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<v Speaker 1>no matter what. And I leave the verbiage about this

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<v Speaker 1>to other people. But yeah, I mean, first responders obviously

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<v Speaker 1>have a very important role to play in society, and

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<v Speaker 1>what they do is great. But it's a big difference

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<v Speaker 1>in being a first responder and being an Army ranger

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<v Speaker 1>who served three tours in Afghanistan. Right, there's a big

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<v Speaker 1>difference between being quite honestly, if we're really going to

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<v Speaker 1>go there are a big difference in being somebody who

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<v Speaker 1>served in the Air Force for a few years and

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<v Speaker 1>never went anywhere outside the United States and somebody who

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<v Speaker 1>did multiple tours as a marine in Iraq. Right, So

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<v Speaker 1>you know, and I think that we probably do ourselves

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<v Speaker 1>a disservice if we try to parse those things out.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's just best to say thank you for your service.

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<v Speaker 1>And those are you say thank you for your service

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<v Speaker 1>to me. I always appreciate it. It's it's kind of

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<v Speaker 1>you to say. But I joined the CIA for my

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<v Speaker 1>own reasons, and I joined the cias I wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>help US country after nine eleven, And quite honestly, there

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<v Speaker 1>are many days where I wish I joined the military instead,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think that that's if I could go back

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<v Speaker 1>in life and do it over, I probably would do that.

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<v Speaker 1>But I did what I thought would be the best

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<v Speaker 1>way for me to serve at the time, and I

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<v Speaker 1>had my frustrations with it. But you know, you can

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<v Speaker 1>see this turns into a complicated discussion pretty quickly, Josh Right.

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<v Speaker 1>Everyone remembers die Hard as a Christmas movie, but no

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<v Speaker 1>one remember it, so is lethal Weapon. I honestly couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>choose a winner over those two. Both were iconic action

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<v Speaker 1>films for films for their own separate reasons. Your take,

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<v Speaker 1>die Hard is a Christmas movie, I didn't. I'm sorry,

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<v Speaker 1>of course, die is a Christmas movie. Lethal Weapon, though,

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<v Speaker 1>is a Christmas movie. I didn't know. I'm trying to

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<v Speaker 1>think back, I haven't. I haven't seen Lethal Weapon a while,

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<v Speaker 1>and I've seen it so many times that I probably

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<v Speaker 1>shouldn't watch it again. I think I've maxed out on

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<v Speaker 1>Lethal Weapon viewings. As to which movie is better, die

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<v Speaker 1>Hard is a better movie's better plot, better execution, better

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<v Speaker 1>bad guys, Gary Abuse. He's pretty good as a psycho

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<v Speaker 1>and lethal Weapon, but die Hard is arguably the best

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<v Speaker 1>action movie of all time, all things considered, It's certainly

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<v Speaker 1>in my top five, up there with Predator and a

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<v Speaker 1>few other movies. So I think Diehard really almost created

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<v Speaker 1>its own genre of the smart action thriller. Jeam, that's

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